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In the past two decades, feminist politics on prostitution has become more polarised and ideological. On the one hand, those on the radical spectrum of feminist politics have fought long and hard to criminalise sex purchase with the intention of ultimately abolishing prostitution. Other feminists have lobbied the state to recognise and institutionalise sex workers human rights.The collection is both a critical intervention in and a re-orientation of the schism in contemporary feminist prostitution politics. Contributors will use this schism as a platform from which to challenge current debates, and think an alternative sex worker-centred politics for social justice. By placing sex workers lived experiences of prostitution at the centre of the conversation, the book rejects the hegemony of neo-abolitionism as the solution to the problem of sex work.The book brings international, trans-disciplinary scholars together to address a rights-based agenda for sex work law and policy and consequently for sex workers lives. This collection offers an invaluable resource on the subject of how sex workers experience injustices and how we can mitigate this globally through a transformative vision of social justice.

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Realising Justice for Sex Workers
Global Political Economies of Gender and Sexuality
Series Editors: Nicki Smith, Adrienne Roberts and Juanita Elias
This series brings together scholarship from leading and emerging scholars working on the intersections of gender and sexuality in political economy. It seeks to move beyond the blindness of international political economy to feminist, gender, trans*, queer and masculinity studies in order to more fully capture the complex and contested transformations associated with globalization, capitalism and neoliberalism.
Titles in the Series
Biopolitical Governance: Race, Gender and Economy , edited by Hannah Richter
Realising Justice for Sex Workers: An Agenda for Change , edited by Sharron A. FitzGerald and Kathryn McGarry
Livable Intersections: Re/Framing Sex Work at the Frontline , by Sara M. Kallock
Heavy Metal, Politics and Feminism: Sexy or Sexist? , by Heather Savigny
Realising Justice for Sex Workers
An Agenda for Change
Edited by Sharron A. FitzGerald and Kathryn McGarry
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Copyright 2018, Sharron A. FitzGerald and Kathryn McGarry
Copyright in individual chapters is held by the respective chapter authors.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN: HB 978-1-7866-0394-4
ISBN: PB 978-1-7866-0395-1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: FitzGerald, Sharron A., editor. | McGarry, Kathryn, editor.
Title: Realising justice for sex workers : an agenda for change / edited by Sharron A. FitzGerald and Kathryn McGarry.
Description: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2018] | Series: Global political economies of gender and sexuality | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018012054 (print) | LCCN 2018019980 (ebook) | ISBN 9781786603968 (Electronic) | ISBN 9781786603944 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781786603951 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Prostitution. | ProstitutionLaw and legislation. | Sex WorkersLegal status, laws, etc.
Classification: LCC HQ118 (ebook) | LCC HQ118 .R43 2018 (print) | DDC 306.74dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018012054
Picture 2 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.
Printed in the United States of America
For Rolf, Stephen, Laoise and Rian, with love and thanks.
Contents
Foreword
Agenda for Change
Kate McGrew
To deem transactional sex inherently exploitative lacks information, and imagination. Lets imagine an agenda for change for sex workers as a body. The law is the bones. The dynamics of sex workers lives are the muscles. Our discourse is the blood.
A chiropractor will tell you that muscles can pull your spine out of alignment, that even when you get adjustments, muscles aligning poorly from bad posture or stress will pull on the vertebrae. You mightve felt this before, when anxious, how your chest muscles tug around and towards a racing heart, and they are indeed strong enough to drag your backbone with it.
For an improved situationthe bodyfor sex workers, the infrastructure we need includes laws that articulate around the various intersections of the chaos of our lives. Laws that serve the body as bones, to support and follow the movement of muscles that ache, flex and stretch in our specific yet pedestrian pursuit of a livelihood in modern times.
The stress of modern life that all humans face is steeped in our relentless need to earn a living.
Sex workers greatest obstacles result from our work being set apart from all other work. This means that we are refused labour rights until we can portray our work environment as ideala picture of work seen in no other sector of this capitalistic patriarchy.
Sex workers bear the heaviest weight of countless years of suppressed sexuality throughout society, of being told the parameters of how and why we can have sex. We have for millennia been on the receiving end of cultures deepest misogyny. It does not inspire or inform that sex work is the oldest profession. It was the first thing women were allowed to do for money. It was the only thing.
Its essential to understand our experience within the context of work, and take pains in relation to this unique work to accommodate the realities of the lives of the people in it. It is no use fighting for protective measures for workers only if we dont do drugs, have mental health issues, or arent homeless, for example. Some of us who sell sex are these things; some might even find sex work the best work based on these qualities. These people deserve to be safe too. To truly honour the concept of choice, we must acknowledge the personal agency that is exercised even in making difficult decisions.
When we dont have legal flexibility to work according to our unique circumstances, the only available options are illegal, are on the black market. Criminality thrives in an illegal landscape. People who seek to exploit us prefer this illegality, as illegal paths are then the only paths available to us, and we have no legal redress for our exploitation. The combination of factors that lead to peoples vulnerability to traffickers and exploiters cannot be blamed on mens desire. They are the result of the dire imbalance of wealth on the planet.
If a sex work abolitionist were to say that arguing for decriminalising the sex industry is like saying, Well, poverty exists, so lets just make more poorhouses, Id respond, Poverty exists, so while we fight together for measures to not only alleviate poverty but to change the systems that perpetuate it, we cannot demolish the poor houses. In fact, lets ask the residents how to make them better.
If we are going to have control within our work, control our platforms, design our businesses so they are less precarious, we need the support to do this legally. Weve got to be heard about what we say we need to draw our own personal blueprints.
Abolitionists are wasting precious time, and minds, meddling with our means of survival simply because transactional sex turns their stomachs. Why does it not turn their stomachs that their strategies compound the problems of the very people they purport to protect?
The bare motivation for abolitionists is in the belief that all women will not be free as long as women are selling sex. However, as long as anyone has to sell anything, we must adopt realistic measures for safest work. We must campaign and legislate for clients to follow the terms of transaction, we must stop polluting minds by insinuating anyone who buys sex is a monster, and we must encourage cultural appreciation of sex workers and the value of our work. We must acknowledge and stress the legitimacy of sex workers consent, and until then no woman will be safe. Expressions of consent are already more complex than current conversations allow. If the right for women to express or use their sexuality stops with sex workers, women will never have full autonomy.
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