Introduction; Section I: Sex Wars; Chapter 1 The Meaning of Sex; Chapter 2 Sexual Slavery; Section II: Working It; Chapter 3 The Emotional Labor of Sex; Chapter 4 Locating Difference; Section III: Strategic Responses; Chapter 5 Prohibition and Informal Tolerance; Chapter 6 Legalization, Regulation, and Licensing; Chapter 7 Sex Worker Self-Advocacy; Chapter 8 Compromising Positions;
Wendy Chapkis is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Southern Maine, Portland.
"In a strikingly incisive review of feminist literature on
prostitution, Chapkis pulls off the neat feat of focusing in on and
then blurring the traditional lines that have distinguished love
and violence, romance and sex, and madonnas and whores." -- Jodi
O'Brien, Signs
"Chapkis is an exceedingly purposeful and interesting writer. Her
discourse, which is often amusing and never boring, competently
negotiates between the specificity of sex work and the abstraction
of theory." -- LesbianReview of Books
"Chapkis' research, conducted primarily in California and
Amsterdam, is presented here as a series of essays, personal
stories, and interviews...She aims to change the tone of the
feminist sex debates, bridging the daunting gaps between such such
self-identified feminists as Kathleen Barry, Andrea Dworkin, Pat
Califia and Camille Paglia." -- Ms. Magazine
"Wendy Chapkis...has a knack for writing intriguing, jargon-free,
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Dissident
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thinking, and an irrepressible sense of humor. This is social
science as it ought to be written." -- R.W. Connell, author of
Masculinities, Rethinking Sex
"Superb interviewing." -- Susie Bright, author of Sexwise
"Chapkis did her homework, letting sex workers expose prostitution
prohibition for what it is: gender control." -- Margo St. James,
Coyote
"Anyone who cares about the welfare of prostitutes, the status of
women, or the so-called feminist sex debates should read this
book." -- Valerie James, author of Making It Work: The Prostitutes'
Rights Movement inPerspective
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