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Izambert, Caroline, Gaëlle Krikorian, and Isabelle Saint-Saëns. "« sex work is work »." Vacarme 46, no. 1 (2009): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/vaca.046.0025.

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Renegade, Riley, and Kressent Pottenger. "Sex Work Is Work." New Labor Forum 28, no. 1 (2019): 98–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1095796018819463.

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Varghese, Ricky. "Sex/work." Porn Studies 3, no. 2 (2016): 191–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2016.1184482.

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White, Luise. "Sex Work." Radical History Review 2024, no. 149 (2024): 41–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01636545-11027352.

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Phoenix, Joanna. "Book Review: Sex, Work and Sex Work: Eroticizing Organization." Journal of Industrial Relations 44, no. 1 (2002): 166–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/0022185602044001018.

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Sutherland, Kate. "Work, Sex, and Sex-Work: Competing Feminist Discourses on the International Sex Trade." Osgoode Hall Law Journal 42, no. 1 (2004): 139–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.60082/2817-5069.1391.

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Patel, Dr Vaibhavi, Dr Bhavna Puwar, and Dr Sheetal Vyas. "Sex work characteristics of Female Sex Workers (FSWs) in Ahmedabad city." International Journal of Scientific Research 2, no. 2 (2012): 351–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.15373/22778179/feb2013/117.

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Naifei, Ding. "Stigma of sex and sex work." Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 7, no. 2 (2006): 326–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649370600674076.

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Nencel, Lorraine. "Selling Sex—Sex Work or Prostitution?" Radical History Review 2024, no. 149 (2024): 38–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01636545-11027339.

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Estrich, Susan. "Sex at Work." Stanford Law Review 43, no. 4 (1991): 813. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1228921.

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Berg, Heather. "Reading Sex Work." South Atlantic Quarterly 120, no. 3 (2021): 485–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-9154856.

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West, Jackie. "Reworking Sex Work." Work, Employment and Society 14, no. 2 (2000): 395–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09500170022118347.

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West, Jackie. "Reworking Sex Work." Work, Employment and Society 14, no. 2 (2000): 395–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0950017000000222.

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Shaver, Frances M. "Sex Work Research." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 20, no. 3 (2005): 296–319. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260504274340.

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Policek, Nicoletta. "Sex Work Now." Crime Prevention and Community Safety 9, no. 3 (2007): 225–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.cpcs.8150046.

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Wilson, Clare. "Safer sex work." New Scientist 228, no. 3051 (2015): 26–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0262-4079(15)31754-1.

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Bowen, Raven. "Survival Sex Work." Radical History Review 2024, no. 149 (2024): 31–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01636545-11027313.

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Waddell, C. E. "FEMALE SEX WORK, NON-WORK SEX AND HIV IN PERTH." Australian Journal of Social Issues 31, no. 4 (1996): 410–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.1839-4655.1996.tb01287.x.

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Santos, Betania, Indianarae Siqueira, Cristiane Oliveira, et al. "Sex Work, Essential Work: A Historical and (Necro)Political Analysis of Sex Work in Times of COVID-19 in Brazil." Social Sciences 10, no. 1 (2020): 2. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci10010002.

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Brazil has made international headlines for the government’s inept and irresponsible response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, sex worker activists have once again taken on an essential role in responding to the pandemic amidst State absences and abuses. Drawing on the theoretical framework of necropolitics, we trace the gendered, sexualized, and racialized dimensions of how prostitution and work have been (un)governed in Brazil and how this has framed sex worker activists’ responses to COVID-19. As a group of scholars and sex worker activists based in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, w

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Vijayakumar, Gowri. "Is Sex Work Sex or Work? Forming Collective Identity in Bangalore." Qualitative Sociology 41, no. 3 (2018): 337–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11133-018-9390-2.

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Ward, Jane. "Sex Scenes, Television, and Disavowed Sex Work." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 48, no. 2 (2023): 371–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/722316.

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Lowthers, Megan, Magdalena Sabat, Elya Durisin, and Kamala Kempadoo. "A Sex Work Research Symposium: Examining Positionality in Documenting Sex Work and Sex Workers’ Rights." Social Sciences 6, no. 2 (2017): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci6020039.

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Huang, Amy L. "De-stigmatizing sex work: Building knowledge for social work." Social Work and Social Sciences Review 18, no. 1 (2015): 83–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1921/swssr.v18i1.850.

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This qualitative study illuminates a controversial perspective of sex work arguing that it should be treated as a legitimate occupation. The article draws on a series of interviews with sex workers, social workers and experts working in areas of support for sex workers in Sydney, New South Wales. Sex workers, social workers and experts’ perception is that sex work was perceived as empowering for sex workers. Contrary to the common images of sex workers as drug users, victims of violence or glamorous women, most of the sex workers in this study did not fit any of the common stereotypes. Sex wor

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Satterly, Brent A. "Sex -Positive Social Work." Journal of Teaching in Social Work 41, no. 1 (2021): 94–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08841233.2021.1837557.

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AOYAMA, Kaoru. "Globalisation and Sex Work:." Japanese Sociological Review 65, no. 2 (2014): 224–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.4057/jsr.65.224.

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Weitzer, Ronald. "Sociology of Sex Work." Annual Review of Sociology 35, no. 1 (2009): 213–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-070308-120025.

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Irvine, Janice M. "The Other Sex Work." Social Currents 2, no. 2 (2015): 116–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2329496515579762.

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Cahill, Louise. "Decriminalisation of sex work." British Journal of Nursing 28, no. 11 (2019): 670. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2019.28.11.670.

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Rekart, Michael L. "Sex-work harm reduction." Lancet 366, no. 9503 (2005): 2123–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(05)67732-x.

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Lewis, Lionel S., and Dennis D. Brissett. "Sex as god’s work." Society 23, no. 3 (1986): 67–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02695709.

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Begum, Sufia, Jane S. Hocking, Jan Groves, Christopher K. Fairley, and Louise A. Keogh. "Sex workers talk about sex work: six contradictory characteristics of legalised sex work in Melbourne, Australia." Culture, Health & Sexuality 15, no. 1 (2013): 85–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2012.743187.

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Hannah, Richard. "Sex, Work, and Sex Work: Eroticizing Organization20041Joanna Brewis and Stephen Linstead. Sex, Work, and Sex Work: Eroticizing Organization. London: Routledge 2000. 350 pp., ISBN: 0‐415‐20757‐6 £19.99." Personnel Review 33, no. 1 (2004): 143–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00483480410510660.

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Gaphee, Ko. "Sex trade/sex work in Korea and Asia." Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 7, no. 2 (2006): 322–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649370600674019.

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Tsang, Eileen Yuk-ha, and John Lowe. "Sex Work and the Karmic Wheel: How Buddhism Influences Sex Work in China." International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 63, no. 13 (2019): 2356–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624x19847437.

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As prostitution is widely condemned as a form of criminality in China, there is a need to examine how Buddhism functions not as a form of therapy for the purposes of rehabilitating or deterring prostitution but as a force that encourages participation in prostitution. In this work, we argue that rural–urban migrant sex workers who are Buddhists appropriate the religion’s teachings of compassion, mindfulness, and karma to find a renewed sense of meaning and purpose in their livelihoods. We illustrate how Buddhism allows sex workers to cultivate the affective labor required for the purposes of s

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Rowan Henderson. "Exhibiting the Sex Industry: Sex Work as Work in the Australian Capital Territory." Labour History, no. 108 (2015): 173. http://dx.doi.org/10.5263/labourhistory.108.0173.

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Aral, S. O. "Sex work in Tallinn, Estonia: the sociospatial penetration of sex work into society." Sexually Transmitted Infections 82, no. 5 (2006): 348–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/sti.2006.020677.

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Almeida, M. J. "Sex work and pleasure. An exploratory study on sexual response and sex work." Sexologies 20, no. 4 (2011): 229–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sexol.2011.08.002.

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Blanchette, Thaddeus, Ana Paula Da Silva, and Gustavo Camargo. "“I Will Not Be Dona Maria”: Rethinking Exploitation and Objectification in the Context of Work and Sex Work." Social Sciences 10, no. 6 (2021): 204. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci10060204.

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In many feminist and sociological accounts of sex work, the concept of exploitation resides on the subjacent notion of objectification, codified in the omnipresent belief that the sex worker sells their body. Sexual objectification supposedly indicates the peculiar and particular effect that sex work is supposed to have on the bodies of human beings involved in this form of toil, being one of the keystones for the belief that sex work is inherently exploitative. In the present article, we intend to investigate the canonical concept of objectification and its (ab)uses in the light of a comparat

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West, Jackie, and Terry Austrin. "From Work as Sex to Sex as Work: Networks, 'Others' and Occupations in the Analysis of Work." Gender, Work and Organization 9, no. 5 (2002): 482–503. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0432.00172.

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Carter, Theadora, Madeline Toubiana, and Trish Ruebottom. "Sexy Work Not Sex Work: How Dirty Work Gets Clean." Academy of Management Proceedings 2020, no. 1 (2020): 14920. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2020.14920abstract.

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McClanahan, Annie, and Jon-David Settell. "Service Work, Sex Work, and the “Prostitute Imaginary”." South Atlantic Quarterly 120, no. 3 (2021): 493–514. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-9154870.

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This article considers the figure of the sex worker across Marxist political economy. Taking up what Melissa Gira Grant terms the “prostitute imaginary,” the authors suggest that from classical political economy to contemporary Marxist-feminist thought, the sex worker has been rhetorically deployed to trouble the boundaries between productive, unproductive, and reproductive work. More recently, the prostitute imaginary has shaped accounts of contemporary service work: in particular, the figure of the sex worker has been used to metaphorize the intimate affects demanded by service work. Rather

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Ward, E. "Playing the Whore: the Work of Sex Work." Community Development Journal 50, no. 1 (2015): 168–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsu057.

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Berg, Heather. "Playing the whore: the work of sex work." Porn Studies 1, no. 4 (2014): 417–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2014.927655.

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Carlisle, Vanessa. "“Sex Work Is Star Shaped”." South Atlantic Quarterly 120, no. 3 (2021): 573–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-9154927.

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This article interrogates the common sex worker rights’ slogan “sex work is real work,” a claim that yokes sex worker struggles to labor struggles worldwide. This article argues that US-based sex worker rights activism, which relies on the labor rights framework to confront stigma and criminalization, is unable to undo how racial capitalism constructs sex work as not a legitimate form of work. While labor protections are important, sex work offers opportunity for the development of antiwork potentials. Many people engaging in sexual performance or trading sex are already creating spaces where

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Walkowitz, Judith R. "The Idea of Sex Work." Radical History Review 2024, no. 149 (2024): 81–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01636545-11027496.

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Abstract Focusing on the UK case, this essay explores how ideas and political practices around sex as work took root in a particular national space and shifted over time. Sex work helped to alter the political and social perception of sex traders, repudiating their marginality and positioning them in the mainstream of ordinary working lives. Beginning in the 1970s, political activists aligned the idea of sex as work with a defense of female practitioners as “ordinary” women doing ordinary women’s work. Sex work offered substantial rhetorical advantages for rights activists, who linked a work p

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Graham, Laura. "Governing Sex Work Through Crime." Journal of Criminal Law 81, no. 3 (2017): 201–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022018317702802.

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This article uses Jonathan Simon’s concept of ‘governing through crime’ as a framework to argue that the state has framed sex work, and its surrounding problems, as issues of crime. There has been a privileging and proliferation of criminal justice responses to sex work in England and Wales, at the expense of more social or welfare-based responses and at the expense of creating safer environments for sex workers to work. Criminal law is used to manage and control sex work, to reinforce other policies, such as immigration and border control, and to appear to be doing something about the ‘proble

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Sprinkle, Annie. "How psychedelics informed by sex life and sex work." Sexuality and Culture 7, no. 2 (2003): 59–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12119-003-1012-8.

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Stevenson, Clare, and Amanda O’Donovan. "Buying and selling sex: Perspectives on commercial sex work." Clinical Psychology Forum 1, no. 177 (2007): 42–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.53841/bpscpf.2007.1.177.42.

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Jick, Todd D., and Linda F. Mitz. "Sex Differences in Work Stress." Academy of Management Review 10, no. 3 (1985): 408. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/258124.

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Yingwana, Ntokozo. "Queering Sex Work and Mobility." Anti-Trafficking Review, no. 19 (September 27, 2022): 66–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.14197/atr.201222195.

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This paper explores the intersections of sex work, mobility, and gendered sexualities through a queer lens. It is based on a study that made use of digital storytelling and WhatsApp to engage 17 migrant and mobile sex workers in South Africa. Through a queering of sex work and migration/mobility analysis, it demonstrates that because sex work is essentially about using one’s body to perform varying sexual acts with different types of people for financial gain, migrant and mobile sex workers are exposed to different ways of experiencing sexual (dis)pleasure. According to the research participan

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