Events

Sex, Work, and Sex Work: Building a feminist analysis and a feminist struggle

Sunday 14th February 2010
4:00pm to 7:00pm

Another Valentine’s Day Special from Feminist Fightback

At The Foundry, 86 Great Eastern St London EC2A 3JL (nearest tube Old Street)

What does understanding sex work as labour bring to our analysis of prostitution? How might it change the way sex workers and feminists fight exploitation and violence? When is sex work and when is it play? What new ways of ‘workplace’ organising need to emerge in order to engage with other forms of ‘affective’ labour or care work?

Film screening @ 4pm ‘Estrellas de la Linea’ (2006) Documentary about Guatemala City sex workers who form a football team to challenge stigmatisation and fight exploitation.
Followed by a discussion with feminists, sex workers and researchers.

It might be useful to have a read of the below in advance. Email us if you cannot access a copy on line.
Noah D. Zatz , ‘Sex Work/Sex Act: Law, Labor, and Desire in Constructions of Prostitution’, Signs, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Winter, 1997), pp. 277-308

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