ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |8 pages
Introduction
part |58 pages
Sex Wars
chapter |30 pages
The Meaning of Sex
chapter |26 pages
Sexual Slavery
part |61 pages
Working It
chapter |28 pages
The Emotional Labor of Sex
chapter |31 pages
Locating Difference
part |86 pages
Strategic Responses