| Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition Contributor(s): Kempadoo, Kamala (Editor), Doezema, Jo (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415918294 ISBN-13: 9780415918299 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $60.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1998 Annotation: This section covers a whole range of human rights issues, including violence against women, trafficking and female genital mutilation. You will find several excellent new titles that show how activists are working to end gender-specific violence, including Breaking the Earthenware Jar, which offers lessons from South Asia, and With an End in Sight, which describes a number of successful initiatives from around the world. Our best-selling Rights of Women is also featured here. Titles on armed conflict and the peace process can be found in a separate section Combining scholarly essays with personal narratives, interviews and reports -- and situating sex workers as working people who should enjoy human rights and workers' rights -- this book reveals ho ordinary women and men in prostitution define and shape their struggle for social change and justice. Bibliography; list of contributing organizations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Social Science | Women's Studies - Political Science | Human Rights |
| Dewey: 306.74 |
| LCCN: 97-45759 |
| Series: Oxford Historical Monographs |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.93" W x 8.95" (0.91 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Global Sex Workers presents the personal experiences of sex workers around the world. Drawing on their individual narratives, it explores international struggles to uphold the rights of this often marginalized group. |
