ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to understand feminist articulation on sex work and puts forward the argument that experiences of women in sex work needs to be understood through the lens of culture-specific perspectives. To this end, this chapter presents the ongoing debate on the issue of sex work and identifies its conceptual limitations. It gives special focus to the themes that have cropped up in the feminist debate, discussing how sex work is perceived by some feminists as a stigmatized, unequal, harmful, and inherently dehumanizing practice that justifies male domination, while other feminists considers it to be a kind of work which involves skills. This chapter argues that feminist theories which are hitherto grounded in dualistic structures do not recognize the presence of in-between spaces and grey areas in sex worker's experiences. This chapter calls for a disruption of all fixed categorizations of sex workers and emphasizes the need for capturing fluid and culture-specific experiences.
