| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: pt. I ON COMMUNITY -- 1. Pregnancy Obscured: Street-Based Sex Work and the Experience of Pregnancy / Signy Toquinto -- 2. "Just to Be There": A Probation Officer's Reflection on Project Dawn Court / Linda Muraresku -- 3. Meeting the New Neighbors: A Case Study on Gentrification and Sex Work in Washington, D.C. / Margot Le Neveu -- 4. Holding Their Own: Female Sex Workers' Perceptions of Safety Strategies / Jennifer E. Cobbina -- 5. "HIV Is Not a Major Concern": Trans Identity, Public-Health Funding, and Sex Work / Nachale "Hua" Boonyapisomparn -- pt. II ON AGENCY -- 6. Portrayal of Street-Based Sex Work in Very Young Girls: How People Get There and Why They Stay / Aneesa A. Baboolal -- 7. Victim or Criminal? Street-Level Prostitutes and the Criminal Justice System / Mira Baylson -- 8. Policing, Protectionism, and Prevention: Prostitution, Sexual Delinquency, and the Politics of Victimhood in Thai and American Antitrafficking Campaigns / Edith Kinney -- 9. "Sixteen Going on Twenty-Six": Reflections on End-Demand Legislation and Street-Based Sex Work / Eileen Corcoran -- pt. III ON RESEARCH -- 10. Sex (Work) in the Classroom: How Academia Can Support the Sex Workers' Rights Movement / Kate D'Adamo -- 11. Objectivity, Activism, and the Challenge of Research on a Highly Polarized and Somewhat Stigmatized Topic / Martin A. Monto -- 12. Poetry in Street-Based Sex Work / Marie Bailey-Kloch -- 13. Nothing about Us without Us: The Trans Response to Survival Sex Work / Ruby Corado -- pt. IV On Policy -- 14. Listening to Voices of the Exploited: Law Enforcement and Sex Trafficking in the United States / Daniel J. Steele -- 15. Antiprostitution Agendas and the Creation of U.S. Antitrafficking Policy / Belinda Carpenter -- 16. Project ROSE: A Case Study on Diversion, Sex Work, and Constitutionality / Chase Strangio. |
| Abstract |
"Are sex workers victims, criminals, orjust trying to make a living? Over the last five years, public policy and academic discourse have moved from criminalization of sex workers to victim-based understanding, shaped by human trafficking. While most research focuses on macro-level policies and theories, less is known about the on-the-ground perspectives of people whose lives are impacted by sex work, including attorneys, social workers, police officers, probation officers, and sex workers themselves. Challenging Perspectives on Street-Based Sex Work brings the voices of lower-echelon sex workers and those individuals charged with policy development and enforcement into conversation with one another. Chapters highlight some of the current approaches to sex work, such as diversion courts, trafficking task forces, law enforcement assisted diversion and decriminalization. It also examines how sex workers navigate seldom-discussed social phenomenon like gentrification, pregnancy, imperialism, and being subjects of research. Through dialogue, our authors reveal the complex reality of engaging in and regulating sex work in the United States and through American aid abroad. Contributors include: Aneesa A. Baboolal, Marie Bailey-Kloch, Mira Baylson, Nachale "Hua" Boonyapisomparn, Belinda Carter, Jennifer Cobbina, Ruby Corado, Eileen Corcoran, Kate D'Adamo, Edith Kinney, Margot Le Neveu, Martin A. Monto, Linda Muraresku, Erin O'Brien, Sharon Oselin. Catherine Paquette, Dan Steele, Chase Strangio, Signy Toquinto, and the editors"-- Provided by publisher. |
