Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker

Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker

An Analysis of Media Representations

Easterbrook-Smith, Gwyn

Rowman & Littlefield

02/2022

212

Dura

Inglês

9781538165140

15 a 20 dias

503

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Preface and Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction

Sex and Work

Sex work in New Zealand

Sex work as work

Researcher positionality

Stigma and the Sex Industry

What is stigma?

How is stigma applied to sex work?

How does this stigma affect sex workers?

What approaches exist to resist this stigma?

Sex Work in the News Media

The role of the media

People don't know sex workers, but they watch TV

Media analysis and news media

New Zealand's media landscape

Chapter 2: Objects of Study

Existing Research into Media Representations

Naming the Sex Working Subject

Who Speaks and Who is Spoken About

Discursive Slippage and Questions of Voice

Images and Motifs of Sex Work

Chapter 3: Intertextuality and Responding to Stigma

In/Visibility as Acceptability

Normative Identity Categories and Community

The Sex Worker as Disease Vector

Sex Work and the Assumption of Violence

The Constrained Nature of Intertextual Narratives

Chapter 4: Comparative Acceptability

Cisgender and Transgender Sex Workers: Vulnerable or Vilified

Transgender workers as a physical threat

Transgender workers as a moral contagion

Migrant Sex Workers and Narratives of Economic Scarcity

The early 2010s: the Rugby World Cup and Student Sex Work

Migrant sex workers and trafficking

Migrant sex workers as an economic threat in 2018

Indoor Workers, Work Volume, and Class Position

Conclusion

Chapter 5: Denying Legitimate Labor

Migrant Workers: Deceptive or Exploited

Street-Based Sex Work: Disrupting 'Legitimate Businesses'

Indoor Sex Work: A Conflation of Work and Play

Sex work as temporary or supplementary

Invisible affective labour

Anything But Work

Chapter 6: Neoliberal Discourses of Choice and Pleasure

Sexual Labour, Sexual Pleasure, and the Right 'Choice'

The Un/Availability of Choices

Removing Management from the Picture

Chapter 7: The Making of the Sex Worker, the Remaking of Stigma

Bibliography

References

Media Texts

About The Author
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Acceptability;Authenticity;Desire;LGBTQ;Migrants;Neoliberalism;New Zealand;News;Prostitution;Stigma