Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415912884)

Drawing on more than fifty interviews in both the US and the Netherlands, Wendy Chapkis captures the wide-ranging experiences of women performing erotic labor and offers a complex, multi-faceted depiction of sex work. Her expansive analytic perspective encompasses both a serious examination of international prostitution policy as well as hands-on accounts of contemporary commercial sexual practices. Scholarly, but never simply academic, this book is explicitly grounded in a concern for how competing political discourses work concretely in the world--to frame policy and define perceptions of AIDS, to mobilize women into opposing camps, to silence some agendas and to promote others.

Author: Wendy Chapkis
ISBN-10: 0415912881
ISBN-13: 9780415912884
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 12/19/1996
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.95h x 6.00w x 0.55d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/09/1996 pg. 57