Getting screwed : sex workers and the law /

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Alison Bass weaves the true stories of sex workers with the latest research on prostitution into a gripping journalistic account of how women (and some men) navigate a culture that routinely accepts the implicit exchange of sex for money, status, or even a good meal, but imposes heavy penalties on t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bass, Alison
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lebanon, NH : ForeEdge, An imprint of University Press of New England, [2015]
Temas:
Prostitution > Law and legislation.
Prostitution.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Prostitution
Prostitution > Law and legislation
Gender & Ethnic Studies.
Social Sciences.
Gender Studies & Sexuality.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue. The "friendliest" brothel in Manhattan
  • The madonna-whore divide
  • The modern sex workers' rights movement
  • Sex work goes online and indoors
  • Why women and men do sex work : variations on a theme
  • The truth about sex trafficking
  • From bad laws to bad cops and violence against women
  • Busted in Sin City : Nevada's two-faced approach to sex work
  • Misguided laws and misuse of resources
  • The Rhode Island story
  • Sex work overseas : prohibition in Sweden versus legalization in New Zealand and the Netherlands
  • Canada's public health experiment
  • California : epicenter of the sex workers' rights movement
  • A saner approach to prostitution
  • Epilogue. Silent no more.

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