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Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work
Melissa Gira Grant
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Description for Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work
Paperback. "An important contribution to debates around sex and work .. deserves to be read." - Nina Power Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: JFMX; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 172.
The sex industry is an endless source of prurient drama for the mainstream media. Recent years have seen a panic over "online red-light districts," which supposedly seduce vulnerable young women into a life of degradation, and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's live tweeting of a Cambodian brothel raid. The current trend for writing about and describing actual experiences of sex work fuels a culture obsessed with the behaviour of sex workers. Rarely do these fearful dispatches come from sex workers themselves, and they never seem to deviate from the position that sex ... Read more
The sex industry is an endless source of prurient drama for the mainstream media. Recent years have seen a panic over "online red-light districts," which supposedly seduce vulnerable young women into a life of degradation, and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's live tweeting of a Cambodian brothel raid. The current trend for writing about and describing actual experiences of sex work fuels a culture obsessed with the behaviour of sex workers. Rarely do these fearful dispatches come from sex workers themselves, and they never seem to deviate from the position that sex ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
174g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781683231
SKU
V9781781683231
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99-15
About Melissa Gira Grant
Melissa Gira Grant is an independent journalist whose work has appeared in Glamour, the Guardian, the Atlantic, Wired and Jezebel. She is also a contributing editor to Jacobin.
Reviews for Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work
"A persuasive manifesto. Underneath Grant's strategically inclusive argument lurks a harder political critique of the transformation of politics and economics since the 1970s."
London Review of Books
In [Playing the Whore], Grant critiques the policing of sex workers, the conditions of the industry, and the ongoing discussions surrounding how we see the sex industry as well as the ... Read more
London Review of Books
In [Playing the Whore], Grant critiques the policing of sex workers, the conditions of the industry, and the ongoing discussions surrounding how we see the sex industry as well as the ... Read more