Carol Wolkowitz, Rachel Lara Cohen, Teela Sanders

Body/Sex/Work (eBook, ePUB)

Intimate, embodied and sexualised labour

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Body/Sex/Work focuses on the intimate, embodied and sexualised labour that occurs within body work and sex work. Bringing together an internationally renowned group of academics, it explores, empirically and theoretically, labour processes, workplace relations, regulation and resistance in some of the many work sites that make up the body work and sex work sectors. The book makes a key contribution to research recognising the embodiment of labour and the body, reframing the key questions in critical studies of work and employment. Key Benefits: - The first book that draws together the sub-disciplines of body work and sex work - Written by leading international experts - Contains cutting edge empirical research on contemporary topics Body/Sex/Work is an ideal companion for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students of labour and organisation studies, body studies, gender, and sexuality. It will also appeal to researchers and lecturers in these fields.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350305298
• Artikelnr.: 62710110

Autorenporträt

CAROL WOLKOWITZ is a Reader in the Sociology Department, University of Warwick, UK

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE: THEORISING BODY/SEX WORK
Introduction: The Body/Sex/Work Nexus; Rachel Lara Cohen, Kate Hardy, Teela
Sanders, Carol Wolkowitz
Touching Moments: An Analysis of the Skillful Search for Dignity within
Body Work Interactions; Marek Korczynski
Work Equal to Any Other, but Not the Same as Any Other: The Politics of
Sexual Labour, the Body and Intercorporeality; Kate Hardy
PART TWO: THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND LEGAL CONTEXT OF BODY/SEX WORK
Legal Constructions of Body Work; Ann Stewart
Gender, Emotional Labour and Interactive Body Work: Negotiating Flesh and
Fantasy in Sex Workers' Labour Practices; Barb Brents, Crystal Jackson
The Frontline Costs of the Southern Cross' Decline; Joe Greener
Hairdressing/undressing: Comparing Labour Relations in Self-employed Body
Work; Teela Sanders, Rachel Lara Cohen and Kate Hard
PART THREE: SEXUALISING BODIES IN THE LABOUR PROCESS
Altered Bodies, Engineered Careers: A Comparison of Body Technologies in
Corporate and Do-It-Yourself Pornographic Productions; Lori Fazzino
From Erotic Capital to Erotic Knowledge: Body, Sexuality and Gender as
Symbolic Skills in Phone Sex Work; Giulia Selmi
'What Does a Manicure Have to Do With Sex?': Racialised Sexualisation of
Body Labor in Routine Beauty Services; Miliann Kang
Touch in Holistic Massage: Ambiguities and Boundaries; Carrie Purcell
PART FOUR: DISCIPLINING AND RESISTANT BODIES
Racing Bodies; Janet Miller
Body work and Ageing: The Biomedicalization of Nutrition Practices; Giulia
Rodeschini
Getting the Bodies of the Workers to the Bodies of the Clients: the Role of
the Rota in Domiciliary Care; Gemma Wibberley
Saliva, Semen and Sanity: Flat-working Women in Hong Kong and Bodily
Management Strategies; Olive Cheung.