Francine Tremblay

Organizing for Sex Workers' Rights in Montréal (eBook, ePUB)

Resistance and Advocacy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is based on a case study about Stella, l'amie de Maimie a Montréal sex workers' rights organization, founded by and for sex workers. It explores how a group of ostracized female-identified sex workers transformed themselves into a collective to promote the health and well-being of women working in the sex industry. Weighed down by the old and tenacious whore symbol, the sex workers at Stella had to find a way to navigate the criminality of sex work and sex workers, in order to do advocacy and support work, and create safer spaces for sex workers to engage in such advocacy. This book focuses on sex workers, but the advocacy challenges and strategies it outlines can also apply to the lives of other marginalized groups who are often ignored, pitied, or reviled, but who are seldom seen as fully human.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498593908
• Artikelnr.: 58617721

Autorenporträt

Francine Tremblay is teaching faculty at Concordia University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Montréal's Sex Industry, 1810-2000
Chapter 2: Stella: The Story Recalled and Analyzed from 1992 to 2000 Within
the Socio/Medical and Cultural Context
Chapter 3: Sex Work and the Metropolis: The Pilot Project Initiative
Chapter 4: Stella's Forum XXX: Celebrating a Decade of Action and Designing
our Future
Chapter 5: Transformation of the Landscape for Sex Worker Organizing in
Canada
Chapter 6: The Trouble with Sex in Sex Work