Sex Workers Unite

A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, History, Americas, United States
Cover of the book Sex Workers Unite by Melinda Chateauvert, Beacon Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Melinda Chateauvert ISBN: 9780807061404
Publisher: Beacon Press Publication: January 7, 2014
Imprint: Beacon Press Language: English
Author: Melinda Chateauvert
ISBN: 9780807061404
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication: January 7, 2014
Imprint: Beacon Press
Language: English

A provocative history that reveals how sex workers have been at the vanguard of social justice movements for the past fifty years while building a movement of their own that challenges our ideas about labor, sexuality, feminism, and freedom
 
Fifty countries treat sex work as a legitimate job, and it has been legalized (with restrictions) in eleven others. The United States is one of the few industrialized nations that continues to criminalize prostitution and, as Melinda Chateauvert reveals, these laws have put sex workers at risk. Documenting five decades of sex-worker activism, Sex Workers Unite puts prostitutes, hustlers, call girls, strippers, and porn stars in the center of civil rights struggles. Although their presence has largely been ignored, sex workers have here been recast as key activists in struggles for gay liberation, women’s rights, reproductive justice, union organizing, and prison abolition. By foregrounding labor, Chateauvert reframes sex work as work and argues that sex-worker rights are ultimately human rights.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

A provocative history that reveals how sex workers have been at the vanguard of social justice movements for the past fifty years while building a movement of their own that challenges our ideas about labor, sexuality, feminism, and freedom
 
Fifty countries treat sex work as a legitimate job, and it has been legalized (with restrictions) in eleven others. The United States is one of the few industrialized nations that continues to criminalize prostitution and, as Melinda Chateauvert reveals, these laws have put sex workers at risk. Documenting five decades of sex-worker activism, Sex Workers Unite puts prostitutes, hustlers, call girls, strippers, and porn stars in the center of civil rights struggles. Although their presence has largely been ignored, sex workers have here been recast as key activists in struggles for gay liberation, women’s rights, reproductive justice, union organizing, and prison abolition. By foregrounding labor, Chateauvert reframes sex work as work and argues that sex-worker rights are ultimately human rights.

More books from Beacon Press

Cover of the book Let the Students Speak! by Melinda Chateauvert
Cover of the book Jefferson's Pillow by Melinda Chateauvert
Cover of the book Typhoid Mary by Melinda Chateauvert
Cover of the book I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine by Melinda Chateauvert
Cover of the book The Radical King by Melinda Chateauvert
Cover of the book Considering Hate by Melinda Chateauvert
Cover of the book Recovering a Lost River by Melinda Chateauvert
Cover of the book Showdown by Melinda Chateauvert
Cover of the book A God That Could Be Real by Melinda Chateauvert
Cover of the book What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear by Melinda Chateauvert
Cover of the book Santeria by Melinda Chateauvert
Cover of the book Snob Zones by Melinda Chateauvert
Cover of the book Putting God Second by Melinda Chateauvert
Cover of the book Faith Ed by Melinda Chateauvert
Cover of the book Nobody Turn Me Around by Melinda Chateauvert
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy