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Article: Rates, Roses and Donations: Naming Your Price in Sex Work
Title | Rates, Roses and Donations: Naming Your Price in Sex Work |
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Authors | |
Keywords | payment practice theory prices sex industry sex work |
Issue Date | 2020 |
Publisher | Sage Publications Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://soc.sagepub.com/ |
Citation | Sociology, 2020, v. 54 n. 5, p. 953-968 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Questions about payment and what it signifies, lie at the heart of feminist debates concerning the morality and legitimacy of sex work. Yet the materialities of payment still remain interestingly under-explored in sex work research. This article addresses this gap by examining immigrant, migrant and racialized sex workers’ pricing practices in Vancouver, Canada and Melbourne, Australia. Determining one’s prices or rates in the sex industry was not a neutral, market-driven calculation for many workers, but was infused with strong ideas about safety, risk, experiential knowledge and the specificities of sex work. Analysing prices and pricing practices through a practice theory lens offers an opportunity to re-think the role of choice in feminist debates about sex work, by highlighting the decisions workers make on a day-to-day basis and capturing the myriad knowledges gained more commonly through experience rather than instruction. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/286735 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.4 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.275 |
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dc.contributor.author | Ham, J | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-04T13:29:36Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-04T13:29:36Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Sociology, 2020, v. 54 n. 5, p. 953-968 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0038-0385 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/286735 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Questions about payment and what it signifies, lie at the heart of feminist debates concerning the morality and legitimacy of sex work. Yet the materialities of payment still remain interestingly under-explored in sex work research. This article addresses this gap by examining immigrant, migrant and racialized sex workers’ pricing practices in Vancouver, Canada and Melbourne, Australia. Determining one’s prices or rates in the sex industry was not a neutral, market-driven calculation for many workers, but was infused with strong ideas about safety, risk, experiential knowledge and the specificities of sex work. Analysing prices and pricing practices through a practice theory lens offers an opportunity to re-think the role of choice in feminist debates about sex work, by highlighting the decisions workers make on a day-to-day basis and capturing the myriad knowledges gained more commonly through experience rather than instruction. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Sage Publications Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://soc.sagepub.com/ | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Sociology | - |
dc.rights | Author(s), Contribution Title, Journal Title (Journal Volume Number and Issue Number) pp. xx-xx. Copyright © [year] (Copyright Holder). DOI: [DOI number]. | - |
dc.subject | payment | - |
dc.subject | practice theory | - |
dc.subject | prices | - |
dc.subject | sex industry | - |
dc.subject | sex work | - |
dc.title | Rates, Roses and Donations: Naming Your Price in Sex Work | - |
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 | 10.1177/0038038520906773 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85081970080 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 314076 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 54 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 5 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 953 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 968 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000524251600001 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0038-0385 | - |