书籍介绍
How the law harms sex workers—and what they want instead
Do you have to think that prostitution is good to support sex worker rights? How do sex worker rights fit with feminist and anti-capitalist politics? Is criminalising clients progressive—and can the police deliver justice?
In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective to questions that have long been contentious. Speaking from a growing global sex worker rights movement, and situating their argument firmly within wider questions of migration, work, feminism, and resistance to white supremacy, they make clear that anyone committed to working towards justice and freedom should be in support of the sex worker rights movement.
精彩摘录
- "As a society, we obsessively valorise work as a key locus of meaning, status, and identity in our lives. At the same time, we struggle with shit jobs, falling wages, and the correct suspicion that what many of us do for money all day contributes nothing of real value to our lives or communities. Ins"
- "Trans women are often questioned about their 'biological' status: a demand that invariably reveals an obsessive focus on their genitals. A trans woman is constantly targeted for public harassment; at the same time, if she is 'read' as trans, she is seen to be as threatening as a man accused of tresp"
作者简介
Juno Mac is a sex worker and activist with the Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement (SWARM), a sex worker–led collective with branches in London, Leeds and Glasgow.
Molly Smith is a sex worker and activist with the Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement (SWARM). She is also involved with SCOT-PEP, a sex worker–led charity based in Edinburgh, which is working to decriminalise sex work in Scotland. She has written articles on sex work policy for Guardian and New Republic.
用户评论
因为前些天的互联网吵架，又把这书仔仔细细地看了一遍。两位作者对针对性工作的不同立法执法模式进行了很详细的梳理和对比，对哪怕是性工作者自组织所倡导的decrim，在广泛的、包括所有人的权利运动、社会革命的语境下，decrim的不足作者也毫不避讳。交叉性的思考也将毒品、边境、劳工权利、性少数权利、种族平权、健康权、医疗公平等等都纳入了性工作者运动的讨论抗争范围，也没有讳言新自由主义叙事的缺陷、性工作者内部的阶级。对我这个读者来说，很幸运的是几年前我对性工作最初的了解即来自在性工作者为中心的组织工作的女权主义者/ 学者、性工作者，顺着她们对这个世界有了更多实际的认知。the way a whore fights the power is of value to everyone.
非常非常好！这本书不是在讨论性工作道德与否、“赋权”与否或是“好”“不好”的问题，而是在让读者了解性工作者受到的普遍不公的对待，指出性工作的核心问题在哪、现有的针对性工作的方案到底错在哪，以及理想的努力方向在哪。作为性工作女权学者，她们的论点清晰，语言易懂，用数据、性工作者口述和骇人的案件来说服读者，希望引起大家的共情，洗去社会上对性工作和性工作者的污名，一起打造一个更公平正义的未来。"When prosecutes win, all women win." 推荐！可惜国内大概无缘出版。
针对性工作的不同法律体系梳理得很清楚，穿插分析反性工作的女权思想，自由主义的层面之外，对于性工作脱离其主体和物质问题的象征化、缺乏对国家代理的批判认识等。想要惩戒掠食性的性消费者的同时，如何优先考虑工作者的安全和需求：Do no harm，都是很好的思考
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