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 beginning to claim ownership of the problem of prostitution from the ...
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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 beginning to claim ownership of the problem of prostitution from the traditional experts. In its first campaign, California-based COYOTE engaged local law enforcement and municipal government officials in debate over selective and discriminatory enforcement of criminal law. In its next stage of development, COYOTE joined in the feminist debates on violence against women and the right of women to control their bodies, linking the question of prostitution to the larger issues of women's rights. In recent years, prostitutes' rights organizations have countered assertions that prostitutes are spreading AIDS and these organizations now constitute a link between prostitutes and public health agencies. The book adds an important practical and theoretical voice to the issues of prostitution, pornography, and sexuality within contemporary feminism. Furthermore, in reconstructing prostitution as a social problem, it speaks more broadly to the notion of deviance, and how so-called deviants can act to frame the debates that affect their lives.
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Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Pages 48-49 have a child's scribble marks in pencil. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 150 p. Social Problems and Social Issues (Walter Hardcover). Audience: General/trade. LCCN 92043845 Type of material Book Personal name Jenness, Valerie, 1963-Main title Making it work: the Prostitute's Rights Movement in perspective / Valerie Jenness. Published/Created New York: Aldine de Gruyter, c1993. Description xiv, 150 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 0202304639 (cloth: alk. paper) 0202304647 (pbk. : alk. paper) LC classification HQ125. U6 J46 1993 LC Subjects Coyote (Organization)--Political activity. Prostitutes--Legal status, laws, etc. --United States. Prostitution--Moral and ethical aspects--United States. Sex and law--United States. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-143) and index. Series Social problems and social issues Dewey class no. 306.74/0973 Geographic area code n-us---
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Fine in Very Good jacket. *Veteran-Owned, Family-Run, Small Book Store in the Pacific Northwest* FAST SHIPPING! ! Clean text, no markings, tight binding.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. Book contains pen markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 350grams, ISBN: 0202304647.
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