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- Title
Working for Love, Loving for Work: Discourses of Labor in Feminist Sex-Work Activism.
- Authors
BERG, HEATHER
- Abstract
The article provides a discourse analysis of U.S. feminist activist's writings depicting sex worker narratives, so as offer research on sexual labor and sex worker social conditions in the U.S. An overview of the sex industry in the U.S. including in regard to Los Angeles, California's law on condom use in adult films, is provided. The relationship between capitalism and sex work is discussed.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SEX workers; FEMINIST literature; DISCOURSE analysis; SEX industry; IDENTITY &; society; ACTIVISM; LABOR; CAPITALISM; TWENTY-first century; CAPITALISM &; society; LABOR -- Social aspects; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Feminist Studies, 2014, Vol 40, Issue 3, p693
- ISSN
0046-3663
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/fem.2014.0045