Sex Work and Women's Movements
- Document number
- 2792
- Date
- 2011
- Title
- Sex Work and Women's Movements
- Author/publisher
- SVATI P. SHAH, Ph.D.
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Women's rights; Women; Control and regulation of prostitution, Protection, Punishable forms of prostitution, Prostitution; Sex work; Clients, Abolitionism; New Abolitionism; Prohibitionism; Regulationism,
- Summary
- The paper begins by describing the history of the relationship between these two movements, and takes U.S.A. and India as its examples. The paper discusses the history of women's movements and sex workers' movements, and where and how they intersected, or not. It goes on to discuss the contemporary context, including the status of alliances and dialogue between the two movements, the ways that HIV/AIDS have structured this relationship, and the question of agency. Svati P. Shah is an Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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