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Realising Justice for Sex Workers: An Agenda for Change
Contributor(s): Fitzgerald, Sharron A. (Editor), McGarry, Kathryn (Editor)

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 ISBN: 1786603950     ISBN-13: 9781786603951
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
OUR PRICE: $52.50  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Human Rights
- Political Science | Political Economy
- Social Science | Gender Studies
Dewey: 306.74
LCCN: 2018012054
Series: Global Political Economies of Gender and Sexuality
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" L (0.90 lbs) 270 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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In the past two decades, feminist politics on prostitution has become more polarised and ideological. On the one hand, those on the radical spectrum of feminist politics have fought long and hard to criminalise sex purchase with the intention of ultimately abolishing prostitution. Other feminists have lobbied the state to recognise and institutionalise sex workers' human rights. The collection is both a critical intervention in and a re-orientation of the schism in contemporary feminist prostitution politics. Contributors will use this schism as a platform from which to challenge current debates, and 'think' an alternative sex worker-centred politics for social justice. By placing sex workers' lived experiences of prostitution at the centre of the conversation, the book rejects the hegemony of neo-abolitionism as the solution to the 'problem' of sex work. The book brings international, trans-disciplinary scholars together to address a rights-based agenda for sex work law and policy and consequently for sex workers' lives. This collection offers an invaluable resource on the subject of how sex workers experience injustices and how we can mitigate this globally through a transformative vision of social justice.

Contributor Bio(s): Fitzgerald, Sharron A.: - Sharron A. FitzGerald teaches in gender and migration studies at Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany. Her research focuses on smuggling and trafficking networks in the Mediterranean from the developing world and their relationship to systems of EU neo-liberal governance and securitisation. Sharron is a member of EU funded project 'ProsPol' that examines features and effects of prostitution policies at the European, national and local levels.McGarry, Kathryn: - Kathryn McGarry is a lecturer in Social Policy in the Department of Applied Social Studies, Maynooth University. Her research interests include gender and risk, prostitution policy and discourse analysis. She participated as an expert academic witness in the recent Irish Government consultation on proposed change to prostitution legislation in Ireland, calling for a social justice response to prostitution. She is currently chair of the board of the Sex Workers' Alliance of Ireland.
 
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