The Sex Economy (eBook)

Monica O'Connor (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
Agenda Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78821-207-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The discourse surrounding prostitution is increasingly one of sexual commerce, transaction and commercial exchange. The "e;sex economy"e; and the consumer demand for it is often discussed both as a legitimate economic business, in which women have control, and as employment comparable to other forms of low-paid work. So much so, that in some countries it is being seen as a service that should be regulated and given a labour-rights framework.Drawing on extensive and detailed research, Monica O Connor challenges the suggestion that the sale of women s bodies as commodities can ever be acceptable, and that the male consumer has an acceptable right to buy sexual acts from another person. She disproves the claim that "e;sex work"e; is a lucrative occupation for impoverished women and girls that can be considered for regulation as part of the normal economy. She lays bare the harm that "e;normalising"e; the sex trade does on women s lives, gender equality and on society as a whole, and exposes the realities that constrain and control women locked in prostitution, debunking the notions of choice and agency.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2019
• Reihe/Serie: The Gendered Economy
• Reihe/Serie: The Gendered Economy
• Verlagsort: Newcastle upon Tyne
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: commodification • Decriminalization • feminist economics • Informal Economy • low-paid work • organised crime • Prostitution • sex industry • Sex trade • Sex Trafficking • women's rights
• ISBN-10: 1-78821-207-X / 178821207X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78821-207-6 / 9781788212076