Sex Work

"An important and timely book that shifts debates on sex work away from the paralysis of dominant discourses and current regulatory regimes and engages with intersectional analysis of the realities of women's intimate working lives in global/mobile economies."

Maggie O'Neill, Durham University

"Sex Work is, overall, a must-read for sex workers, scholars and activists who are concerned with the sex industry, as well as with issues of sexuality, labor and mobility more broadly." - Samantha Majic, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, May 2013

"Unlike predominant public and policy discourses focused only on sex workers' mobility as it relates to exiting the sex industry, these authors consider this within the sex industry (between legal and illegal sectors), between regulated and unregulated spaces, and across state and national borders. Drawing from extensive interviews with sex workers in Melbourne, Australia to examine how they negotiate their labor in relation to existing local and border regulatory systems, and to changing conceptualizations of sex, intimacy and embodiment, Maher, et al. argue that understanding mobility is central to understanding sex work as an everyday practice, as a regulatory site, and as part of a global employment sector...Sex Work is, overall, a must-read for sex workers, scholars and activists who are concerned with the sex industry, as well as with issues of sexuality, labor and mobility more broadly"-Dr Samantha Majic, Jay College/CUNY.