Body/Sex/Work: Intimate, embodied and sexualised labour (Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment)

by Carol Wolkowitz, Rachel Lara Cohen, and Teela Sanders

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Body/Sex/Work focuses on the intimate, embodied and sexualised labour that occurs within body work and sex work. Bringing together an internationally renowned group of academics, it explores, empirically and theoretically, labour processes, workplace relations, regulation and resistance in some of the many work sites that make up the body work and sex work sectors. The book makes a key contribution to research recognising the embodiment of labour and the body, reframing the key questions in critical studies of work and employment.

Key Benefits:

- The first book that draws together the sub-disciplines of body work and sex work
- Written by leading international experts
- Contains cutting edge empirical research on contemporary topics

Body/Sex/Work is an ideal companion for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students of labour and organisation studies, body studies, gender, and sexuality. It will also appeal to researchers and lecturers in these fields.
  • ISBN10 113702190X
  • ISBN13 9781137021908
  • Publish Date 27 February 2013
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 10 November 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Macmillan Education UK
  • Imprint Red Globe Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 276
  • Language English