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Dewey, Susan; Zheng, Tiantian; Orchard, Treena; Germain, St. Tonia - Sex Workers and Criminalization in North America and China - 9783319257617 - V9783319257617
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Sex Workers and Criminalization in North America and China

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Description for Sex Workers and Criminalization in North America and China Paperback. Series: Springerbriefs in Anthropology. Num Pages: 110 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHM; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 6. Weight in Grams: 186.
Sex work continues to provoke controversial legal and public policy debates world-wide that raise fundamental questions about the state’s role in protecting individual rights, status quo social relations, and public health. This book unites ethnographic research from China, Canada, and the United States to argue that criminalization results in a totalizing set of negative consequences for sex workers’ health, safety, and human rights. Such consequences are enabled through the operations of an exclusionary regime, a dense coalescence of punitive forces that involves both governance, in the form of the criminal justice system and other state agents, and dynamic interpersonal encounters ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
110
Condition
New
Series
Springerbriefs in Anthropology
Number of Pages
99
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319257617
SKU
V9783319257617
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Ref
99-15

About Dewey, Susan; Zheng, Tiantian; Orchard, Treena; Germain, St. Tonia
Susan Dewey is an Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wyoming, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on research methods, sex work, and public policy. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Fulbright-Hays, and the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.  Tiantian Zheng is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of ... Read more

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