Making It Work: The Prostitutes' Rights Movement in Perspective - Rilegato

Jenness, Valerie

 
9780202304632: Making It Work: The Prostitutes' Rights Movement in Perspective
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ISBN 10: 0202304639 ISBN 13: 9780202304632
Casa editrice: Aldine De Gruyter, 1993

Sinossi

As its double-edged title suggests, Making It Work examines the "oldest profession" as just that: a service industry with professional sex workers. This reframing of prostitution is done by chronicling the evolution of COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), the leading organization of the contemporary prostitutes' rights movement. Founded in the early 1970s, a period of intense and far-reaching change in American sexual mores, COYOTE sought from the beginning to claim ownership of the "problem" of prostitution from the traditional experts.
In its first campaign, California-based COYOTE engaged local law enforcement and municipal government officials in debate over selective and discriminatory enforcement of criminal law. In its next stage of development, COYOTE joined in the feminist debates on violence against women and the right of women to control their bodies, linking the question of prostitution to the larger issues of women's rights. In recent years, prostitutes' rights organizations have countered assertions that prostitutes are spreading AIDS and these organizations now constitute a link between prostitutes and public health agencies.
The book adds an important practical and theoretical voice to the issues of prostitution, pornography, and sexuality within contemporary feminism. Furthermore, in reconstructing prostitution as a social problem, it speaks more broadly to the notion of deviance, and how so-called deviants can act to frame the debates that affect their lives.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Valerie Jenness is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Washington State University.

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Editore
Aldine De Gruyter
Data di pubblicazione
1993
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0202304639
ISBN 13 
9780202304632
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
150
Contatto del produttore
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9783110141092: Making it Work: Prostitutes' Rights Movement in Perspective

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  3110141094 ISBN 13:  9783110141092
Casa editrice: Walter de Gruyter & Co, 1993
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