Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition

With the growing international phenomena of sex tourism, sexual slavery, human trafficking, child prostitution and AIDS, one thing has become clear: the global village has a brothel.Global Sex Workerscombines scholarly essays with personal narratives, interviews and reports, presenting the perspectives of sex workers from Asia, Australia, the Americas, the Caribbean, West and South Africa and Western Europe. This collection testifies to the diversity of activities and meanings of sex work, both culturally specific and transnational in scope, as workers go about their daily lives. It documents national and international sex workers' movements that organize for legal and human rights, struggling to resist marginalization and exploitive working conditions around the world.