RT Book
T1 Policing bodies: law, sex work, and desire in Johannesburg
A1 Thusi, I. India
LA English
PP Stanford, California
PB Stanford University Press
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1756104239
AB Policing and sex work in historical perspective -- Mapping the policing of sex -- Informal policing in Rosebank -- Policing beauty -- Sex work, feminism, and policy.
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HQ262.J6
SN 9781503629226
SN 9781503629745
K1 Prostitution : South Africa : Johannesburg
K1 Law Enforcement : South Africa : Johannesburg
K1 sex workers : Legal status, laws, etc : South Africa
K1 Prostitution : Law and legislation : South Africa
K1 Human Rights : South Africa
K1 Johannesburg : Prostitution : Polizei : Überwachung : Kontrolle : Regulierung : Menschenrecht