Is Sex Work an Expression of Women's Choice and Agency?

Compromised Consent in Prostituted Sex in Ireland

Arguments defending prostitution based on the language of agency and of women's ... For feminists to suggest that the law should validate women's “choice” to sell ...

The Neoliberal Co-option of the Feminist Movement

industry's lobbying for women's “choice” in prostitution while ignoring the social constraints of that decision. Highlighting that, in ...

Intersections Between Street Sex Workers' Agency and Their ...

While the sex work debate about agency focuses primarily on the exercise of a woman's choice to enter into and/or remain in sex work, a few ...

Are all Women Sex Workers? - Political Feminism

According to SET, sexual negotiations put women in the role of a merchant who trades sex (or exclusive sexual access) for “goods and services” ...

Sex work: Solidarity not salvation - Libcom.org

“The concept of women's 'choice' to sell sex is constructed in line with neoliberal and free-market thinking; the same school of thinking that purports that ...

Sex workers as peer health advocates: community empowerment ...

... sex workers and equip them to exercise agency in their work and personal lives. ... women in survival sex work. Soc Sci Med. 2008;50:911–21 ...

A Model for Understanding Structure Versus Agency in the ...

Most research concerning sex workers in the United States centers upon females and their exploitation and/or risk factors for becoming involved in prostitution ...

Esperanza Fonseca and the Case for Prostitution Abolition

“The vast majority of people in prostitution would leave if they had any other options for survival,” she said, explaining that narratives of ...

The Work of Sex Work: Prostitution, Unfreedom, and Criminality at ...

The central and uniting demand of the sex worker rights movement around the world is the decriminalization of consensual adult sex work. This is based on the ...

The two “P's” of gender inequality are polygamy and prostitution ...

Judging Women's Sexual Agency: Contemporary Sex Wars in the Legal Terrain of ... While both the danger and choice stances have as a goal sexual justice for women, ...

Looking Beyond Binaries to Avoid Polarization in the Sex Work Debate

In 2010, the CIA estimated that—in the. United States alone—around 50,000 women and children are trafficked each year for sexual exploitation (Hepburn 4). As I ...

It's Complicated: Dating as a Sex Worker - Shado Magazine

There are parts to be enjoyed and parts to be criticised. Sex workers are workers because there is nothing wrong with people who have sex for ...

What works to enhance women's agency: Cross-cutting lessons from ...

perceptions about other men's attitudes towards women's work had a positive impact on their wives' labor force participation (Bursztyn, González, and Yanagizawa ...

Prostitution Stigma's Effects on Mental Health Professionals ...

Wahab reported that the women described entering the sex work industry as a choice to engage ... work as intrinsically harmful or as an expression of women's.

A General Overview of Theoretical Approaches on Sex Work

earlier feminist schools of thought to support women's autonomy in their choice of sex work. ... agency and abolition in feminist debates over sex ...

Consensual sex work: An overview of sex-workers' human dignity in ...

On the other hand, Campagna defined sex-work as “an act by which an individual exchanges a sexual service against something which is not sexual.”12 In his ...

Ending the War Against Sex Work: Why It's Time to Decriminalize ...

women's agency is “reduced through the sexual objectification of women ... sex and women's choices about sex, should be decriminalized com-.

Sex Work and Empowerment: Migrant Women Looking for Love

through this, women have equal opportunity to make choices and to express their rights, ... “Between Victim and Agent: A Third-Way Feminist Account of Trafficking.

Searching for Empowerment and Emancipation in Sex Work | Wagadu

thize with Women's Aid UK. The underlying issue in this debate is whether sex work engenders agency and power for women—power being by one ...

A resilience-based lens of sex work: Implications for professional ...

Such a lens also has at its core a resilience-based understanding of sex work as an inevitable market exchange and an expression of women's own sexual agency.