Description: Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: The Politics of Sex WorkCarisa R. Showden and Samantha Majic Part I. Sex Work and the Politics of Knowledge Production1. Researching Sexuality: The Politics of Location Approach for Studying Sex Work Michele Tracy Berger and Kathleen Guidroz 2. Beyond Prescientific Reasoning: The Sex Worker Environmental Assessment Team Study Alexandra Lutnick 3. Participant-Driven Action Research (PDAR) with Sex Workers in Vancouver Raven Bowen and Tamara O'Doherty Part II. Producing the Sex Worker: Law, Politics, and Unintended Consequences4. Demanding Victims: The Sympathetic Shift in British Prostitution Policy Annie Hill 5. Criminalized and Licensed: Local Politics, the Regulation of Sex Work, and the Construction of "Ugly Bodies" Cheryl Auger 6. Bad Girls and Vulnerable Women: An Anthropological Analysis of Narratives Regarding Prostitution and Human Trafficking in BrazilThaddeus Gregory Blanchette and Ana Paula da Silva7. Raids, Rescues, and Resistance: Women's Rights and Thailand's Response to Human TraffickingEdith Kinney8. The Contested Citizenship of Sex Workers: The Case of the NetherlandsJoyce Outshoorn9. Comrades, Push The Red Button! Prohibiting the Purchase of Sexual Services in Sweden but Not in FinlandGregg Bucken-Knapp, Johan Karlsson Schaffer, and Pia Levin Part III. Negotiating Status: The Promises and Limits of Sex Worker Organizing 10. Collective Interest Organization among Sex WorkersGregor Gall11. Sex Work Politics and the Internet: Carving Out Political Space in the BlogosphereValerie Feldman12. Gender Relations and HIV/AIDS Education in the Peruvian Amazon: Women Sex Worker Activists Creating CommunityYasmin Lalani13. Sex Worker Rights Organizations and Government Funding in CanadaSarah Beer and Francine TremblayContributorsIndex

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