Description
Product ID: | 9781786633613 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Revolting Prostitutes |
Subtitle: | The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights |
Authors: | Author: Juno Mac, Molly Smith |
Page Count: | 288 |
Subjects: | Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Ethical issues: prostitution & sex industry, Human rights, civil rights, Human rights |
Description: | Select Guide Rating How the law harms sex workers - and what they want insteadDo you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justice?In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective to questions that have long been contentious. Speaking from a growing global sex worker rights movement, and situating their argument firmly within wider questions of migration, work, feminism, and resistance to white supremacy, they make it clear that anyone committed to working towards justice and freedom should be in support of the sex worker rights movement. How the law harms sex workers—and what they want instead Do you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justice? In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective to questions that have long been contentious. Speaking from a growing global sex worker rights movement, and situating their argument firmly within wider questions of migration, work, feminism, and resistance to white supremacy, they make it clear that anyone committed to working towards justice and freedom should be in support of the sex worker rights movement. |
Imprint Name: | Verso Books |
Publisher Name: | Verso Books |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2020-03-03 |