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Title: |
Street Sex Work and Canadian Cities |
| Sub-title: |
Resisting a Dangerous Order |
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| By (author): |
Shawna Ferris |
| ISBN10-13: |
1772120057 : 9781772120059 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
228x152x17mm |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Weight: |
.400 Kg. |
| Published: |
University of Alberta Press - February 2015 |
| List Price: |
29.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Subjects: |
Society & culture: general : Media studies : Violence in society : Globalization : Ethical issues: prostitution & sex industry : Gender studies: women |
| â Our voices scrubbed out and forgotten. There are those who research and write about sex workers who often forget we are human.â â Amy Lebovitch Shawna Ferris gives a voice to sex workers who are often pushed to the background, even by those who fight for them. In the name of urban safety and orderliness, street sex workers face stigma, racism, and ignorance. Their human rights are ignored, and some even lose their lives. Ferris aims to reveal the cultural dimensions of this discrimination through literary and art-critical theory, legal and sociological research, and activist intervention. Canadian cities are striving for high safety ratings by eliminating crime, which includes â cleaningâ urban areas of the street sex industry. Ironically, sex workers also want to live and work in a safe environment. Ferris questions these sanitizing political agendas, reviews exclusionary legislative and police initiatives, and examines media representations of sex workers. This book has much to offer to educators and activists, sex workers and anti-violence organizations, and academics studying women, cultural, gender, or indigenous issues. Foreword by Amy Lebovitch. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Foreword by Amy Lebovitch Acknowledgements Introduction 1 | City/Whore Synecdoche and the Case of Vancouver's Missing Women 2 | Anti-Prostitution Reporting, Policing, and Activism in Canada's Global Cities 3 | Technologies of Resistance: Sex Worker Activism Online 4 | Agency and Aboriginality in Street-Involved or Survival Sex Work in Canada Conclusion Appendices Notes Works Cited Index |
| Awards / Prizes: |
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Manitoba Book Awards / Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book
2016
Canada
Winner
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Scholarly and Academic Book Award, Alberta Book Awards, Book Publishers Association of Alberta
2016
Canada
Winner
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Outstanding Scholarship Prize, Women's and Gender Studies et Recherches Feminists Association (WGSRF
2017
Canada
Winner
Awarded By: Employing an intersectional feminist framework, Ferris demonstrates how policies regarding the control, monitoring, and policing of sex workers' bodies and activities have must less to do with 'protecting' them and the public than with articulating dominant perceptions and discourses around female sexuality, class, and race. |
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"'Why did the murder of 14 white, educated women at école Polytechnique in 1989 inspire parliamentary outrage and a legislative response from the Department of Justice, while the 'disappearance' of 65 poor, mainly Aboriginal women in Vancouver was treated as a police matter?.. Canada tolerates no capital punishment but has been oddly indifferent to the death penalty meted out to 'missing' women, Ferris writes... Street Sex Work shocks. It is also insightful and dark and worthwhile for any reader who is not afraid to dive in the deep end." [Full review athttps://www.blacklocks.ca/review-shocking] -- Holly Doan -- Blacklock's Reporter, 20150328
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Ferris presents compelling evidence of how the representations of and responses to sex-work in Canadian cities reflect a necropolitical global-capitalist agenda that contradicts the liberal democratic ideals that the Canadian nation-state purports to uphold. Likewise, she offers a nuanced and complex analysis of how the experiences of Canadian urban street sex-workers and the representations of them by others must be understood from the intersections of class, gender, and race. Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh, Left History, Spring/Summer 2017
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“Ferris presents compelling evidence of how the representations of and responses to sex-work in Canadian cities reflect a necropolitical global-capitalist agenda that contradicts the liberal democratic ideals that the Canadian nation-state purports to uphold. Likewise, she offers a nuanced and complex analysis of how the experiences of Canadian urban street sex-workers and the representations of them by others must be understood from the intersections of class, gender, and race.” - Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh, Left History, Spring/Summer 2017
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