Policing bodies: law, sex work, and desire in Johannesburg
Policing and sex work in historical perspective -- Mapping the policing of sex -- Informal policing in Rosebank -- Policing beauty -- Sex work, feminism, and policy.
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| Tipo de documento: | Print Libro |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Stanford, California
Stanford University Press
[2022]
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| En: | Año: 2022 |
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| Disponibilidad en Tübingen: | Disponible en Tübingen. UB: KB 21 A 1776 |
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| Sumario: | Policing and sex work in historical perspective -- Mapping the policing of sex -- Informal policing in Rosebank -- Policing beauty -- Sex work, feminism, and policy. "Sex work occupies a legally grey space in Johannesburg, South Africa, and police attitudes towards it are inconsistent and largely unregulated. As I. India Thusi argues in Policing Bodies this results in, both, room for negotiation that can benefit sex workers, as well as extreme precarity in which the security police officers provide can be offered and taken away at a moment's notice. Sex work straddles the line between formal and informal. Attitudes about beauty and subjective value are manifest in formal tasks, including police activities, which are often conducted in a seemingly ad hoc manner. However, high-level organizational directives intended to regulate police obligations and duties toward sex workers also influence police action and tilt the exercise of discretion to the formal. In this liminal space, this book considers how sex work is policed and how it should be policed. Challenging discourses about sexuality and gender that inform its regulation, Thusi exposes the limitations of dominant feminist arguments regarding the legal treatment of sex work. This in-depth, historically informed ethnography, illustrates the tension between enforcing a country's laws and protecting citizens' human rights"-- |
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| Notas: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Descripción Física: | ix, 235, Illustrationen, Diagramme |
| ISBN: | 9781503629226 9781503629745 |