Policing Bodies: Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johannesburg

by India Thusi and I. India Thusi

Book Overview

Sex work occupies a legally gray space in Johannesburg, South Africa, and police attitudes towards it are inconsistent and largely unregulated. As I. India Thusi argues in Policing Bodies, this results in both room for negotiation that can benefit sex workers and also extreme precarity in which the security police officers provide can be offered and taken away at a moment's notice. Sex work straddles the line between formal and informal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503629740
• ISBN13: 9781503629745
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"