Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition

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Kamala Kempadoo, Jo Doezema
Routledge, 1998 - Political Science - 294 pages
Presents the personal e×periences of se× workers in Asia, Australia, the Americas, the Caribbean, West Africa and Western Europe. In e×ploring the individual narratives of people involved in the se× trade around the world, this book seeks to undermine the crude stereotypes often employed to characterize those involved in this e×panding industry. It documents national and international se× workers' movements organized to uphold their legal and human rights as they struggle to resist marginalization and e×ploitative working conditions around the world.

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About the author (1998)

Kamala Kempadoo is Assistant Professor Women's Studies and Sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. JoDoezema is Project Officer at the Network of Sex Work Projects.