Navigating Contemporary Sex Work
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This book draws together interdisciplinary perspectives to examine the legal, moral, and socio-spatial regulation of sex work in the contemporary context. With a thematic focus on the gendered landscape of sex work, formal and informal methods of socio-spatial control, and (in)access to justice, this book explores the role of space in the regulation of sex work in diverse contexts, from the local to the global. The chapters collectively bring together complex, inter-related issues that impact the lives of sex workers throughout the world, providing evidence of the impacts of regulation on sex workers and subsequent barriers to accessing justice and rights. This collection centres the regulated lives of sex workers, using an intersectional lens that highlights the gendered and racialised impacts of stigma. Incorporating knowledge derived from both academic research and lived experience, this book provides a unique contribution that will be of interest to academics and policy-makers globally.
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"This book contains in-depth studies on sex work, covering its different aspects. Whether it's the impact of different laws, social dynamics, pornography or the use of new technologies to promote sex work, the book reflects on all these aspects, presenting a vast explanation of the subject of prostitution, and these different variants addressed in an extensive and comprehensive way make this book a must-read for anyone dedicated to the study of sex work or violence and gender inequality." (Fábio Pinto, Crime Law and Social Change, Vol. 83 (1), 2025)
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Emily Cooper is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law and Policing, University of Central Lancashire, UK.
Laura Graham is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Northumbria University, UK.
Lynzi Armstrong is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Martin Zebracki is Professor of Human Geography and Social Inclusion at the University of Leeds, UK.
Paul Maginn is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia, Australia.
Content
Introduction: Navigating Contemporary Sex Work; Navigating (In)Access to Justice and Rights.- Male Sex Work Online: Harnessing Digital Profiles to Enhance Research in Support of Health and Social Justic.- Queering Discourses of Prostitution, Homosexuality, and Age of Consent: How Social Media Troubles Traditional and Contemporary Constructions of Sex Work.- Visualizing Moral Geographies in Urban Space: The Legal Discourses Shaping Socio-Spatial Exclusion and Violence Against Trans Sex Workers in Bogotá, Colombia.- Open your mind to what goes on behind closed doors: Sex work, Sex workers and Clients with Disability.- "Tumbleweeds and Titillation": Moral Geographies of Selling Sex in the Nevada Desert.- Pornography, Policy, and Public Health: The Case of Measure B.- The Contradictions of Gender, Race, and Justice in U.S. Anti-Prostitution Policy.- Visual Terrorism: The Image, Violence, and Sex Work.- Conclusion: Future Directions in Sex Work Research.
