Revolting Prostitutes - The Fight for Sex Workers'Rights

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.

About the author

Molly Smith is a sex worker and activist with the Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement (SWARM). She is also involved with SCOT-PEP, a sex worker-led charity based in Edinburgh, which is working to decriminalise sex work in Scotland. She has written articles on sex work policy for Guardian and New Republic.

Report

With fine, lucid discourse, Juno Mac and Molly Smith decline to engage in the typical back and forth that drones on between the would-be saviors, the scolds, and the glorifiers to go to the heart of the matter- sex work as labor, with a work force ready to speak their minds and fight for their rights. They avoid easy answers and ask the reader to rethink sex work. Susie Bright, author of Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir

Product details

• Authors: Jun Mac, Juno Mac, Juno Smith Mac, Molly Smith, Smith Molly
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2020
• EAN: 9781786633613
• ISBN: 978-1-78663-361-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Prostitution & Sex Trade, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Human rights, civil rights, Ethical Issues: Prostitution & Sex Industry, Ethical issues and debates