Challenging perspectives on street-based sex work /
"Are sex workers victims, criminals, or just trying to make a living? Over the last five years, public policy and academic discourse have moved from criminalization of sex workers to victim-based understanding, shaped by human trafficking. While most research focuses on macro-level policies and...
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :
Temple University Press,
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Corey S. Shdaimah, Katie Hail-Jares, and Chrysanthi S. Leon
- Pregnancy obscured : street-based sex work and the experience of pregnancy / Signy Toquinto
- "Just to be there" : a probation officer's reflection on Project Dawn Court / Linda Muraresku
- Meeting the new neighbors : a case study on gentrification and sex work in Washington, D.C. / Katie Hail-Jares, Catherine Paquette, and Margot Le Neveu
- Holding their own : female sex workers' perceptions of safety strategies / Sharon S. Oselin and Jennifer E. Cobbina
- "HIV is not a major concern" : trans identity, public-health funding, and sex work / Nachale "Hua" Boonyapisomparn
- The portrayal of street-based sex work in Very young girls : how people get there and why they stay / Chrysanthi S. Leon, Corey S. Shdaimah, and Aneesa A. Baboolal
- Victim or criminal? : street-level prostitutes and the criminal justice system / Mira Baylson
- Policing, protectionism, and prevention : prostitution, sexual delinquency, and the politics of victimhood in Thai and American antitrafficking campaigns / Edith Kinney
- "Sixteen going on twenty-six" : reflections on end-demand legislation and street-based sex work / Eileen Corcoran
- Sex (work) in the classroom : how academia can support the sex workers' rights movement / Kate D'Adamo
- Objectivity, activism, and the challenge of research on a highly polarized and somewhat stigmatized topic / Martin A. Monto
- Poetry in street-based sex work / Marie Bailey-Kloch
- Nothing about us without us : the trans response to survival sex work / Ruby Corado
- Listening to voices of the exploited : law enforcement and sex trafficking in the United States / Daniel J. Steele
- Antiprostitution agendas and the creation of U.S. antitrafficking policy / Erin O'Brien and Belinda Carpenter
- Project ROSE : a case study on diversion, sex work, and constitutionality / Chase Strangio
- Conclusion / Chrysanthi S. Leon, Corey S. Shdaimah, and Katie Hail-Jares