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1st ed. 2016. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 99 pages) : illustration |
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SpringerBriefs in Anthropology, 2195-0814. SpringerBriefs in Anthropology and Ethics |
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SpringerBriefs in anthropology. Springerbriefs in anthropology and ethics.
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| Contents |
Chapter 1: Law, Public Policy, and Sex Work in North America and China; Legal and Public Policy Responses to Sex Work Cross-Culturally; Unintended Consequences? The Impacts of Criminalizing Prostitution; Systematic Collusion Within Exclusionary Regimes; Ethnographic Context and Methodology; Case Study One: China; Ethnographic Context; Dalian; The Karaoke Bar Entertainment Industry; Policing and Regulating Sex Work; Methodology; Case Study Two: Canada; Ethnographic Context; London; East of Adelaide; The Regulation of Sex Work. |
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Methodology; Interviews with Women in Sex Work; Socio-Demographic Profile of the Women; Interviews with Service Providers; Capturing the Field; Case Study Three: The United States; Ethnographic Context; Denver, Colorado; East Colfax Avenue; Policing and Regulating the Sex Trade; Methodology; Concise Summary Overview of Chapters and Key Arguments; References; Chapter 2: Systematic Collusion: Criminalization's Health and Safety Consequences; The Impact of Sex Work's Legal Status on Health and Safety; Case Study One: China; A Violent Working Environment; An Exploitative Environment. |
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Group Disaffiliation Health Risks; Case Study Two: Canada; The Impact of Drug User Identity on Health; It's Your Fault; The Problems with Methadone; The Impact of Sex Worker Identity on Safety; Laws and Safety; The Police; Case Study Three: The United States; Restricted Police Aid and Reporting; Disrupted Peer Solidarity; Limited Information Sharing with Healthcare Providers and Peers; Health Diagnosis in Crisis Contexts and the Criminalization of HIV Status; Discussion; References; Chapter 3: Negotiating Systematic Collusion: Autonomy, Citizenship, and Resistance. |
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Sex Workers' Negotiations of the Exclusionary Regime Case Study One: China; Protection Networks; Temporary Alliances; Contractual Relationships with Regular Clients; Urban Citizenship; Case Study Two: Canada; Trying to Engage: Conformity and Avoidance; Conformity; Avoidance; Street-Based Strategies; Drug Use; Sex Work; Case Study Three: The United States; Extrajudicial Problem-Solving and Selective Enlistment of Police Aid; Working Independently; Work-Related Interpersonal Tool Kit; Healthcare during Incarceration or Court-Mandated Addiction Treatment; Discussion; References. |
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Chapter 4: Researchers' Negotiations of Systematic Collusion; Ethical Issues in Sex Work Research; Case Study One: China; Negotiating Suspicion; Negotiating Violence and Police Raids; Negotiating Stigma and Marginalization; Negotiating with Scholars in the Academic Field; Case Study Two: Canada; Karma's a Bitch: Negotiating with Regional Radicals; The Sex Work "Plan": Negotiating with City Folks; Good Help Is Hard to Give; Case Study Three: The United States; Living in Ideals or Living in the World: Taking Sides; "Expert Testimony"; Discussion and Concluding Thoughts; References. |
| Summary |
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 in which individuals both enforce and negotiate stigma-related discrimination against sex workers. Chapter Two demonstrates how criminalization harms sex workers by isolating their work to potentially dangerous locations, fostering mistrust of authority figures, further limiting their abilities to find legal work and housing, and restricting possibilities for collective rights-based organizing. Criminalized sex workers report police harassment, seizure of condoms, and adversarial police-sex worker relations that enable others to abuse them with impunity. Chapter Three describes how sex workers negotiate these restrictions on their rights and personal autonomy via their arrest avoidance and client management strategies, self-treatment of health issues, selective mutual aid, rights-based organizing, and entrenchment in sex work or other criminalized activities. Chapter Four describes how researchers working in countries or locales that criminalize sex work face ethical concerns as well as barriers to their work at the practical, institutional, and political levels. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Social sciences.
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Anthropology.
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Criminology.
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Sociology.
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Sex (Psychology)
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Gender expression.
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Gender identity.
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Social Sciences.
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Criminology & Criminal Justice.
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Gender Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Anthropology. (OCoLC)fst00810196
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Criminology. (OCoLC)fst00883566
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Gender expression. (OCoLC)fst01782862
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Gender identity. (OCoLC)fst00939593
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Sex (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst01114228
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Social sciences. (OCoLC)fst01122877
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Sociology. (OCoLC)fst01123875
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Zheng, Tiantian, author.
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Orchard, Treena, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9783319257617 |
| ISBN |
9783319257631 (electronic bk.) |
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9783319257617 |
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3319257617 |
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3319257633 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-3-319-25763-1 doi |
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