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Global sex workers : rights, resistance, and redefinition
Title:
Global sex workers : rights, resistance, and redefinition
Author:
Kempadoo, Kamala.
Publication Information:
New York : Routledge, [1998]

©1998
Physical Description:
294 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Part one. Rethinking sex work. Forced to choose: beyond the voluntary v. forced prostitution dichotomy / Jo Doezema. Debt-bondage and trafficking: don't believe the hype / Alison Murray. An international perspective on slavery in the sex industry / Jo Bindman. Women, labor, and migration: the position of trafficked women and strategies for support / Marjan Wijers. Discourses of prostitution: the case of Cuba / Amalia Lucía Cabezas. Prostitution, stigma, and the law in Japan: a feminist roundtable / Group Sisterhood -- Part two. Migrations and tourism. Ghanaian women and prostitution in Cote d'Ivoire / John K. Anarfi. From Thailand to Japan: migrant sex workers as autonomous subjects / Satoko Watenabe. The migrant tightrope: experiences from the Caribbean / Kamala Kempadoo. Children, prostitution, and identity: a case study from a tourist resort in Thailand / Heather Montgomery. Hustling for dollars: jineterismo in Cuba / Coco Fusco -- Part Three. Sex workers' organizations. The Association of Autonomous Women Workers, Ecuador, "22nd June" / Angelita Abad, Marena Briones, Tatiana Cordero, Rosa Manzo, and Martha Marchán. Japanese sex workers: encourage, empower, trust, and love yourselves! / Momocca Momocco. The exotic dancers' alliance: an interview with Dawn Passar and Johanna Breyer / Kamala Kempadoo. SWEAT: the development of a sex worker advocacy and intervention program in post-apartheid South Africa / Shane A. Petzer and Gordon M. Issacs. A world of people: sex workers in Mexico / Claudia Colimoro interviewed by Amalia Lucía Cabezas. The wind of change is whispering at your door: the Mahila Samanwaya committee / Minu Pal, Sadhana Mukherji, Madhabi Jaiswal, and Bachhu Dutta. International activism: Jo Doezema interviews NWSP coordinator, Cheryl Overs. Transgenders and sex work in Malaysia / Khartini Slamah. It's good to know: the Maxi Linder association in Suriname / Dusilley Cannings, Juanita Altenberg, Judi Reichart, and Kamala Kempadoo -- Part four. AIDS prevention and sex workers' empowerment. The Pegação program: information, prevention, and empowerment of young male sex workers in Rio de Janiero / Paulo Henrique Longo. Prostitution in Senegal / Oumar Tandia. The TAMPEP project in Western Europe / Licia Brussa. COIN and MODEMU in the Dominican Republic / Kamala Kempadoo.
ISBN:
9780415918282

9780415918299
Format :
Book