Negotiating Sex Work: Unintended Consequences of Policy and Activism

Globally, discussions about sex work focus on exploitation. The media regularly provides us with stories about teen girls coerced to perform sexual acts for money, frequently beaten and robbed by their pimps or traffickers. While one would have to be hard-pressed to deny that sex workers are victimized, the popular media and our political leaders emphasize sex work as exclusively exploitative. In Negotiating Sex Work , Carisa R. Showden and Samantha...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816689598
• ISBN13: 9780816689590
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.4"