Gender and Sexuality
Contemporary gender and sexuality studies have much to offer the study of sex work which involves men, women and transgenders as buyer and sellers of sexual services.
Recent work on the production of sexual subjectivities under neoliberalism highlights the potential of a political economy approach to sex work - one that goes beyond debates about coercion and choice to understand better the structures of constraint and scenarios of agency within which sex is bought, sold and traded. The Paulo Longo Research Initiative will conduct new ethnographic studies that permit a more nuanced understanding of sex workers' negotiation of norms on gender and sexuality within their relationships. We will contribute to - as well as draw on -broader debates within the fields of gender and sexuality, whether on questions of masculinity and male sexualities, or on resistance and resilience, to offer new insights into the material conditions of sex work. Our work in this area will aim to move beyond understanding of the sex worker as a distinct type of sexual or economic subject toward exploration of commercial sex and transactional dimensions of sex as enmeshed in power relationships and economies of desire that are inherent within all sexualities.
Resources
- Risk-Coping through Sexual Networks - 2012
- Whore's Glory - 2012
- Sex Work and Feminism - 2011
- Measuring perceived stigma in female sex workers in Chennai, India - 2011
- A Psychosocial Study of Male-to-Female Transgendered and Male Hustler Sex Workers in São Paulo, Brazil - 2011
- Adolescent female sex workers: invisibility, violence and HIV - 2011
- Ain't I a Woman? A Global Dialogue between the Sex Workers’ Rights movement and the Stop Violence Against Women Movement - 2011
- An Exploratory Study of the Social Contexts, Practices and Risks of Men Who Sell Sex in Southern and Eastern Africa - 2011
- Beyond compassion: Children of sex workers in Kolkata’s Sonagachi - 2011
- Buying the Girlfriend Experience: An Exploration of the Consumption Experiences of Male Customers of Escorts - 2011
Tweets
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Court-based research: collaborating with the justice system to enhance STI services for vulnerable women in the US http://t.co/3vEaFQVO
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The fractal queerness of non-heteronormative migrant #sexworkers in the UK by Nick Mae http://t.co/X7oGFeDI
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'only 31% of the sample of indirect sex workers reported having been engaged in commercial sex in the last 12 months'
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Old but good. Violence and Exposure to HIV among #sexworkers in Phnom Penh http://t.co/rkrRGiBa
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Someone is Wrong on the Internet: #sex workers' access to accurate information http://t.co/aMSXhygd
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