Making It Work: The Prostitute's Rights Movement in Perspective
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As its double-edged title suggests, Making It Work examines the oldest profession as just that: a service industry with professional sex workers. This reframing of prostitution is done by chronicling the evolution of COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), the leading organization of the contemporary prostitutes' rights movement. Founded in the early 1970s, a period of intense and far-reaching change in American sexual mores, COYOTE sought from the...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0202304647
ISBN13:9780202304649
Release Date:June 1993
Publisher:Routledge
Length:150 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.2"
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A must-read for feminist scholars!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Jenness provides an in-depth look at the prostitutes' rights movement by taking both a social movement and a deviance approach. Jenness structures her work around seeing prostitution as a social problem - a social problem different organizations have tried to lay claim to for the past 200 years. Her main focus is on COYOTE, the movement's most active and visible actor since 1973, but she also spends considerable time on other influences, from the 19th century social purists to the women's movement today. In a wonderfully unbiased and detached manner, Jenness presents the conflicts that have arisen in both the prostitutes' rights movement and the women's movement over this issue. Should prostitution be eliminated or recognized as a profession? Are prostitutes to be pitied or respected as artisans?I give this book four stars because of its content and thorough research. Jenness' writing style can be difficult, so I recommend three or four sittings to complete the book.
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