Organizing for Sex Workers' Rights in Montreal (eBook)

Resistance and Advocacy

Francine Tremblay (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
222 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9390-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This book is based on a case study about Stella, l'amie de Maimie a Montreal sex workers rights organization, founded by and for sex workers. It explores how a group of ostracized female-identified sex workers transformed themselves into a collective to promote the health and well-being of women working in the sex industry. Weighed down by the old and tenacious whore symbol, the sex workers at Stella had to find a way to navigate the criminality of sex work and sex workers, in order to do advocacy and support work, and create safer spaces for sex workers to engage in such advocacy. This book focuses on sex workers, but the advocacy challenges and strategies it outlines can also apply to the lives of other marginalized groups who are often ignored, pitied, or reviled, but who are seldom seen as fully human.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.2.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Decriminalization • sex work and sexuality • sex work as labor • Sex workers organization • sex work in Canada • social movement and emotion • Whore stigma history
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-9390-9 / 1498593909
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-9390-8 / 9781498593908