Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work. Playing the Whore redefines the politics of sex work, placing sex workers at the center of the story. A Village Voice favorite book of the year. In Playing the Whore I describe how American feminists in the ’s did not seek to abolish prostitution, but to find common cause with sex workers and to support sex workers in their political organizing. It’s only been in the last decade or so that mainstream feminists have sought to use law enforcement to abolish sex work and to remove sex workers from their jobs, which they say is for . Based on ten years of writing and reporting on the sex trade, and grounded in the author's personal experience as a sex worker, community organizer and health educator, Playing the Whore dismantles pervasive myths of prostitution, criticizes conditions within the sex industry, and argues that separating sex work from the 'legitimate' economy only harms those who perform sexual labor.
© Melissa Gira Grant. Site Designed Developed by Star bltadwin.ru bltadwin.run. ― Melissa Gira Grant, Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work. 3 likes. ― Melissa Gira Grant, Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work. 0 likes. Like "If the sex workers standing in the doorways in Phnom Penh's red-light district looked out on the street with fear, it could be just as likely from the prospect of rescue as due to any. Playing the Whore.: Melissa Gira Grant. Verso Books, - Political Science - pages. 9 Reviews. 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.
Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work is a book by Melissa Gira Grant about the politics of sex work. The author—a journalist and former sex worker—views sex work as labor and analyzes public narratives about what a prostitute is. Grant identifies systemic economic issues relating to sex work while dissenting with anti–sex-work feminists and organizations which aim to "rescue" sex workers. Melissa Gira Grant is a journalist, author, and filmmaker. She is a staff writer at The New Republic and she is the author of Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Verso), as well as A Woman Is Against the Law: Sex, Race, and the Limits of Justice of America, forthcoming from Little, Brown (US) and Verso (UK). In Playing the Whore I describe how American feminists in the ’s did not seek to abolish prostitution, but to find common cause with sex workers and to support sex workers in their political organizing. It’s only been in the last decade or so that mainstream feminists have sought to use law enforcement to abolish sex work and to remove sex workers from their jobs, which they say is for their own good.
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