{"product_id":"sex-work-in-southeast-asia-leslie-barnes-9781399532884","title":"Sex Work in Southeast Asia: Scenes of Ambivalence in Literature and Film","description":"Examining the ambivalences that mark Southeast Asian sex industries under global imperialism, this book explores the multi-layered subjectivities of sex workers, procurers and clients, and interrogates the frameworks in which discourses surrounding sex work circulate. Engaged with debates concerning the status of transactional sex, Leslie Barnes explores the symbolic force and concrete conditions of sex work in Cambodia and Vietnam, considering how these debates and the figures they ensnare are mediated by fiction and creative nonfiction. The book's \u003ci\u003escenes of ambivalence \u003c\/i\u003eshow how the aesthetic treatment of sex work stretches the paradigms we use to make sense not only of sex work, but also of art, the evidentiary status of testimony and the spectacles of pleasure and suffering. Contesting essentialism and authenticity, and working to suspend judgement, these scenes encourage a re-examination of what we think we know about sex work, how we know it and what we do with that knowledge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leslie Barnes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 139953288X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399532884\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/31\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d","brand":"Leslie Barnes","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48153626050815,"sku":"9781399532884","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8f2d08ea-7eaa-4dac-985c-f812dcc739b1.jpg?v=1770784744","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sex-work-in-southeast-asia-leslie-barnes-9781399532884","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}