Policing Pleasure : : Sex Work, Policy, and the State in Global Perspective / / ed. by Susan Dewey, Patty Kelly.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Blanchette, Thaddeus Gregory,; De Sas Kropiwnicki, Zosa,; Dewey, Susan,; Goodyear, Michael,; Izugbara, Chimaraoke,; Kelly, Patty,; Mitchell, Gregory,; Orchard, Treena,; Pankonien, Dawn,; Trotter, Henry,; Weitzer, Ronald,; Williams, Erica Lorraine,; Zheng, Tiantian,; da Silva, Paula,
• HerausgeberIn: Dewey, Susan,; Kelly, Patty,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Mónica waits in the Anti-Venereal Medical Service of the Zona Galactica, the legal, state-run brothel where she works in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico. Surrounded by other sex workers, she clutches the Sanitary Control Cards that deem her registered with the city, disease-free, and able to work. On the other side of the world, Min stands singing karaoke with one of her regular clients, warily eyeing the door lest a raid by the anti-trafficking Public Security Bureau disrupt their evening by placing one or both of them in jail.Whether in Mexico or China, sex work-related public policy varies considerably from one community to the next. A range of policies dictate what is permissible, many of them intending to keep sex workers themselves healthy and free from harm. Yet often, policies with particular goals end up having completely different consequences.Policing Pleasure examines cross-cultural public policies related to sex work, bringing together ethnographic studies from around the world-from South Africa to India-to offer a nuanced critique of national and municipal approaches to regulating sex work. Contributors offer new theoretical and methodological perspectives that move beyond already well-established debates between “abolitionists” and “sex workers’ rights advocates” to document both the intention of public policies on sex work and their actual impact upon those who sell sex, those who buy sex, and public health more generally.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 International Trends in the Control of Sexual Services -- 3 Into the Galactic Zone -- 4 Sex Work and the State in Contemporary China -- 5 Smart Sex in the Neoliberal Present -- 6 On the Boundaries of the Global Margins -- 7 The Virtues of Dockside Dalliance -- 8 “Their own way of having power” -- 9 “Hata watufanyeje, kazi itaendelea” -- 10 Prostitution in Contemporary Rio de Janeiro -- 11 Prevailing Voices in Debates over Child Prostitution -- 12 Organizational Challenges Facing Male Sex Workers in Brazil’s Tourist Zones -- 13 “What is the use of getting a cow if you can’t make any money from it?” -- 14 Moral Panic -- References -- About the Contributors -- Index