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Part A | Beyond Divides: New Frameworks for Understanding the Sex Industry
1 Sex Work Now: What the Blurring of Boundaries around the Sex Industry Means for Sex Work, Research, and Activism
The sexualization of culture
Mainstreaming of the sex industry
Implications for sex workers, sex businesses, scholars, and activists
2 The (Crying) Need for Different Kinds of Research
How can we understand these stories?
Why do we do research, anyway?
Research without prejudice
Migration as a research framework
3 The Meaning of the ‘Whore’: How Feminist Theories on Prostitution Shape Research on Female Sex Workers
Examining agency and researcher positionality
Feminist theory and sex work research
Feminist theories on sex work influence policy on trafficking
Moving beyond ‘consent’ v.‘force’
Researching the wellbeing of sex workers
Beyond trauma: exploring sex workers’ coping strategies
Sex work and mental health: comparing sex workers to non-sexworkers
Sex work as middle-class occupation and leisure activity
Linking methodology with ideology
Future directions in sex work research
Part B | Managing Multiple Roles
4 To Love, Honor, and Strip: An Investigation of Exotic Dancer Romantic Relationships
5 Sex and the Unspoken in Male Street Prostitution
Five lives, five experiences
Space and the material underpinning of street life
Street families and emotional instrumentality
Violence and the self-management of identity
6 enforced ab/normalcy: the sex worker hijras and the (re)appropriation of s/he identity
Let’s start with fix(a)tion
Chheley nachano: performing an/other
Figure 6.1 The socio-economic status of the Dhuranis
‘Sex work as liberating alternative’
8 Show Me the Money: A Sex Worker Reflects on Research into the Sex Industry
9 Selling Sex: Women’s Participation in the Sex Industry
The manufacturing of identity
Part D | Sex Work and the State
10 Pimping the Pueblo: State-regulated Commercial Sex in Neoliberal Mexico
Sex, neoliberalism, and the state
Obligadas, mantenidos, and independientes
Conclusion: the state as pimp
11 Deviant Girls, Small-scale Entrepreneurs, and the Regulation of German Sex Workers
Uniquely progressive: a law that failed
Reconstructing internal discourses
Framing the debate: public discourses
Two administrative cultures, two different outcomes
12 Sex Work, Communities, and Public Policy in the UK
The socio-legal context in the UK
Beyond binaries: creative consultation, project-led multi-agency approaches, and social justice
Participatory research involving sex workers: problems and issues
Local service provision and policy: reflecting the views of sex workers
The value of participatory and collaborative methods of research: outcomes from the two studies
Conclusion: the importance of genuine participation and inclusion in public policy research and safe spaces for dialog and knowledge production
Part E | Organizing Beyond Divides
13 Sex Workers’ Rights Activism in Europe: Orientations from Brussels
Choosing allies, producing collective truth
14 Conclusion: Pushing Boundaries in Sex Work Activism and Research
Sex Work Matters
：Exploring Money, Power, and Intimacy in the Sex Industry
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