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Article: Scripting pragmatic intimacies in sex work, migration and intimate-material exchanges
Title | Scripting pragmatic intimacies in sex work, migration and intimate-material exchanges |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Sex work intimate-material exchanges intimate economies migrants Hong Kong |
Issue Date | 2020 |
Publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13691058.asp |
Citation | Culture, Health and Sexuality, 2020, Epub 2020-08-28, p. 1-15 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This paper examines women’s movement between sex work and intimate economies, with a specific focus on how non-Chinese women in Hong Kong leverage intimacy as a means of managing legal and socio-economic precarity within various institutional and individual constraints. To capture the diversity of women’s experiences, we use the term ‘intimate-material exchanges’ to broadly refer to compensation or material support provided in exchange for sexually intimate relations. We ground our analysis of the interactional processes involved in intimate-material exchanges in 39 interviews with ethnically non-Chinese women and men in Hong Kong. For the women in this study, intimate-material exchanges were shaped by migration and distinguished by pragmatism, strategy and intentionality that involved adapting, improvising and experimenting with sexual scripts in an ambiguous legal space in order to derive maximum material benefit. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of migration and intimate-material exchanges for sex worker rights. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/286688 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 1.8 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.730 |
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dc.contributor.author | Ham, J | - |
dc.contributor.author | Gheorghiu, I | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-04T13:29:01Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-04T13:29:01Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Culture, Health and Sexuality, 2020, Epub 2020-08-28, p. 1-15 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1369-1058 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/286688 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper examines women’s movement between sex work and intimate economies, with a specific focus on how non-Chinese women in Hong Kong leverage intimacy as a means of managing legal and socio-economic precarity within various institutional and individual constraints. To capture the diversity of women’s experiences, we use the term ‘intimate-material exchanges’ to broadly refer to compensation or material support provided in exchange for sexually intimate relations. We ground our analysis of the interactional processes involved in intimate-material exchanges in 39 interviews with ethnically non-Chinese women and men in Hong Kong. For the women in this study, intimate-material exchanges were shaped by migration and distinguished by pragmatism, strategy and intentionality that involved adapting, improvising and experimenting with sexual scripts in an ambiguous legal space in order to derive maximum material benefit. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of migration and intimate-material exchanges for sex worker rights. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13691058.asp | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Culture, Health and Sexuality | - |
dc.rights | Preprint: This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in [JOURNAL TITLE] on [date of publication], available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/[Article DOI]. Postprint: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in [JOURNAL TITLE] on [date of publication], available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/[Article DOI]. | - |
dc.subject | Sex work | - |
dc.subject | intimate-material exchanges | - |
dc.subject | intimate economies | - |
dc.subject | migrants | - |
dc.subject | Hong Kong | - |
dc.title | Scripting pragmatic intimacies in sex work, migration and intimate-material exchanges | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Ham, J: jham@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Ham, J=rp02065 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/13691058.2020.1785011 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 32856570 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85089991622 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 314078 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | Epub 2020-08-28 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 15 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000564040600001 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1369-1058 | - |