@article{ref1,
title="Prostitution, Sex Work and Violence: Discursive and Political Contexts for Five Texts on Paid Sex, 1987–2001",
journal="Gender and history",
year="2004",
author="Shah, Svati P.",
volume="16",
number="3",
pages="794-812",
abstract="This article deals with the trope of the victimised, female body in feminist debates on the selling of sexual services. The notion of ‘violence’ is central to the construction of a key axis of the debates. The article explores these issues by discussing five recent and historical feminist works on prostitution/sex work, and touches on works which address methodological issues of gathering information on an activity which is, by definition, illicit, stigmatised and socio-politically marginalised. The essay brings out several tensions in the framing of the present debates, especially regarding the varied contexts of ‘the West’ and the ‘non-West’, as well as issues of macropolitical change, including economic globalisation. It concludes with the ways in which the texts serve to disaggregate the concepts of ‘sex work’ and ‘violence’.<p />",
language="",
issn="0953-5233",
doi="10.1111/j.0953-5233.2004.00365.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0953-5233.2004.00365.x"
}