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This edited collection showcases innovative, up and coming researchers' work in the field of sex work studies across labour/work and relationships. This research is pushing the boundaries of the subject, asking new questions, carving new methodological terrain, and contributing new ideas and empirical findings to the existing literature. Drawing on sociology, criminology, media studies, social and health policy, law and socio-legal studies, the chapters reflect a range of new topics in the sex work studies literature such as religious readings, porn workers and their interactions with fans; romantic relationships, and humour at work. Studies are drawn from Europe, South America, Turkey, Ireland, New Zealand and the USA. This book speaks to academics across the social sciences and humanities who are interested in sex work studies.
List of contents
Part 1: Work, Labour, and Relations.- Chapter 1: Trophy Hunting and the Celebrity Porn Star; Examining interactions between Pornography Performers and their Fans, Protestors, and Saviours.- Chapter 2: Sex Workers Rights Are Human Rights. Or Not? The Art of Stealing Back Human Rights.- Chapter 3: Colleagues, Councils, and Club Owners: The Materialisation of the Whorearchy inside British Strip Clubs.- Chapter 4: Timely Telling Tweets: Using social media data to tell the stories of window sex workers in Amsterdam facing major changes to their working conditions.- Chapter 5: SWAGS: Sex workers and An Garda Síochána - Reimagining sex work policing in Ireland.- Part 2: Relationships, Identity, and Harm.- Chapter 6: Carnal Knowledge: Epistemic Injustice and the Wisdom of Whores. Bella Matos & Jack Woods, The American University of Paris & University of Leeds.- Chapter 7: Capturing Accidental Moments - The Self-Reflective Researcher and the Utility of the Research Diary.- Chapter 8: Risk factors related to sexual exploitation for a cohort of female sex workers in Bogotá.- Chapter 9: Imagining the Subversive Potential of Sex Workers' Humour.- Chapter 10: Reading In and Writing Out: Origins and Impacts of Approaches to Sex Work in Biblical and Theological Scholarship.- Chapter 11: "Though we are often invisible, we are always taking care of each other ": mutual care among sex workers.
About the author
Teela Sanders is Professor of Criminology at the University of Leicester, UK. Sitting on the borders of criminology and sociology, she explores the inter-relationship between human sexuality and socio-legal structures.
Kathryn McGarry is Assistant Professor in Social Policy at Maynooth University, Ireland. Kathryn's research interests include gender, risk and social justice, sexuality and the law and critical feminist methodologies.
Paul Ryan is Assistant Professor in Sociology at Maynooth University, Ireland. His research interests are within the sociology of the family and personal life, sexuality, and the law.
