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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Gwyn Easterbrook-SmithPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.70cm Weight: 0.503kg ISBN: 9781538165140ISBN 10: 1538165147 Pages: 212 Publication Date: 25 February 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Sex and Work Sex work in New Zealand Sex work as work Researcher positionality Stigma and the Sex Industry What is stigma? How is stigma applied to sex work? How does this stigma affect sex workers? What approaches exist to resist this stigma? Sex Work in the News Media The role of the media People don’t know sex workers, but they watch TV Media analysis and news media New Zealand’s media landscape Chapter 2: Objects of Study Existing Research into Media Representations Naming the Sex Working Subject Who Speaks and Who is Spoken About Discursive Slippage and Questions of Voice Images and Motifs of Sex Work Chapter 3: Intertextuality and Responding to Stigma In/Visibility as Acceptability Normative Identity Categories and Community The Sex Worker as Disease Vector Sex Work and the Assumption of Violence The Constrained Nature of Intertextual Narratives Chapter 4: Comparative Acceptability Cisgender and Transgender Sex Workers: Vulnerable or Vilified Transgender workers as a physical threat Transgender workers as a moral contagion Migrant Sex Workers and Narratives of Economic Scarcity The early 2010s: the Rugby World Cup and Student Sex Work Migrant sex workers and trafficking Migrant sex workers as an economic threat in 2018 Indoor Workers, Work Volume, and Class Position Conclusion Chapter 5: Denying Legitimate Labor Migrant Workers: Deceptive or Exploited Street-Based Sex Work: Disrupting ‘Legitimate Businesses’ Indoor Sex Work: A Conflation of Work and Play Sex work as temporary or supplementary Invisible affective labour Anything But Work Chapter 6: Neoliberal Discourses of Choice and Pleasure Sexual Labour, Sexual Pleasure, and the Right ‘Choice’ The Un/Availability of Choices Removing Management from the Picture Chapter 7: The Making of the Sex Worker, the Remaking of Stigma Bibliography References Media Texts About The AuthorReviews"A sensitive, multi-layered account of what stigma looks like, how it is produced, and how it operates through media portrayals of sex workers and debates about sex work itself. Skillfully traces the function of multiple discourses--from sex positivity to transmisogyny--to reproduce stigma and privilege. Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker is written to be read widely--clear, engaging, poignant, and forthright; a useful volume for scholars and activists both in and out of the academy. Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker provides a compelling account of how sex workers are represented and produced in New Zealand media to create the 'accepted' and 'unaccepted' sex worker. Easterbrook-Smith very eloquently argues that racist, classist, transphobic and xenophobic media reporting has functioned to reinforce a 'whorearchy' amongst sex workers through the shifting of stigma. The book is a thought-provoking read from beginning to end and a must-read for all who have an interest in sex work. This important book offers a nuanced analysis of how media draw on a cultural imaginary of the sex industry to produce and reify the stigmas associated with sex work. Easterbrook-Smith deftly reveals the implicit hierarchies of ""acceptable"" and ""unacceptable"" sex workers and how intersectional oppressions of gender, race, class, and citizenship status are implicated in this stratification. This book should be key reading for sex work and labour researchers and activists, students of sociology and communication, journalists writing about sex work, and anyone concerned with the rights and legal protections owed to people doing sex work." "A sensitive, multi-layered account of what stigma looks like, how it is produced, and how it operates through media portrayals of sex workers and debates about sex work itself. Skillfully traces the function of multiple discourses--from sex positivity to transmisogyny--to reproduce stigma and privilege. Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker is written to be read widely--clear, engaging, poignant, and forthright; a useful volume for scholars and activists both in and out of the academy. --Carisa R. Showden, University of Auckland Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker provides a compelling account of how sex workers are represented and produced in New Zealand media to create the 'accepted' and 'unaccepted' sex worker. Easterbrook-Smith very eloquently argues that racist, classist, transphobic and xenophobic media reporting has functioned to reinforce a 'whorearchy' amongst sex workers through the shifting of stigma. The book is a thought-provoking read from beginning to end and a must-read for all who have an interest in sex work. --Dr. Gillian Abel, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand This important book offers a nuanced analysis of how media draw on a cultural imaginary of the sex industry to produce and reify the stigmas associated with sex work. Easterbrook-Smith deftly reveals the implicit hierarchies of ""acceptable"" and ""unacceptable"" sex workers and how intersectional oppressions of gender, race, class, and citizenship status are implicated in this stratification. This book should be key reading for sex work and labour researchers and activists, students of sociology and communication, journalists writing about sex work, and anyone concerned with the rights and legal protections owed to people doing sex work. --Stacey Hannem, professor, Wilfrid Laurier University" Producing the Acceptable Sex Worker provides a compelling account of how sex workers are represented and produced in New Zealand media to create the 'accepted' and 'unaccepted' sex worker. Easterbrook-Smith very eloquently argues that racist, classist, transphobic and xenophobic media reporting has functioned to reinforce a 'whorearchy' amongst sex workers through the shifting of stigma. The book is a thought-provoking read from beginning to end and a must-read for all who have an interest in sex work.--Dr. Gillian Abel, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand Author InformationGwyn Easterbrook-Smith is a researcher, lecturer and commentator currently based in Wellington, New Zealand. They have most recently taught at Massey University. They were awarded a PhD in Media Studies from the Victoria University of Wellington in 2018. Their research deals primarily with media representations of the sex industry, with a particular interest in how these operate under New Zealand’s legal model of decriminalisation. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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