
Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor
Popular representations of third-world sex workers as sex slaves and vectors of HIV have spawned abolitionist legal reforms that are harmful and ineffective, and public health initiatives that provide only marginal protection of sex workers'' rights. In this book, Prabha Kotiswaran asks how we might understand sex workers'' demands that they be treated as workers. She contemplates questions of red...
Popular representations of third-world sex workers as sex slaves and vectors of HIV have spawned abolitionist legal reforms that are harmful and ineffective, and public health initiatives that provide only marginal protection of sex workers'' rights. In this book, Prabha Kotiswaran asks how we might understand sex workers'' demands that they be treated as workers. She contemplates questions of red...