num_pages: 256
description: Drawing on more than fifty interviews in both the US and the Netherlands, Wendy Chapkis captures the wide-ranging experiences of women performing erotic labor and offers a complex, multi-faceted depiction of sex work. Her expansive analytic perspective encompasses both a serious examination of international prostitution policy as well as hands-on accounts of contemporary commercial sexual practices. Scholarly, but never simply academic, this book is explicitly grounded in a concern for how competing political discourses work concretely in the world--to frame policy and define perceptions of AIDS, to mobilize women into opposing camps, to silence some agendas and to promote others.
language: English
title: Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor
titlecomplete: Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor
genres: Sex Work, Feminism, Womens, Gender Studies, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 69
publisher: Routledge