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get thee to a nunnery!

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 17th, 2009 • Category: Feminist Fight Club, Laura Agustin, Prostitution, Research, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Positive Politics, Sex Work, Sex at the Margins

So, yesterday, I related Agustin’s discussion of her fieldwork with the Progresistas, an organization that advocates for the rights of sex workers, mostly by handing out condoms. They believe that solidarity — among sex workers and between all women — is the method for obtaining women’s rights. As a consequence, they have a tendency to […]



we don’t have to talk to prostitutes to know what prostitution is

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 16th, 2009 • Category: Feminist Fight Club, Laura Agustin, Prostitution, Radical Feminism, Research, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Positive Politics, Sex Work, Sex at the Margins

So, why the title of the earlier post, pt 1 of a discussion of Agustin’s Chapter, ‘From Charity to Solidarity,’ from her book, _Sex on the Margins? I entitled that post, “Did you hear the one about a sex club owner and some nuns?”
Agustin draws on her fieldnotes, which she sets of in sans serif […]



did you hear the one about a sex club owner and some nuns?

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 16th, 2009 • Category: Feminist Fight Club, Laura Agustin, Prostitution, Radical Feminism, Research, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Positive Politics, Sex Work, Sex at the Margins

I’m going to skip ahead to the chapter I’d mentioned was most interesting in Augustin’ book, _Sex on the Margins_, which comes toward the end of the book. This is partly because I figure I won’t have time to get to the rest of the book before it’s due back from interlibrary loan. But it’s […]



sex at the margins: traveling

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 15th, 2009 • Category: Feminist Fight Club, Laura Agustin, Prostitution, Research, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Work, Sex at the Margins

as I mentioned in an earlier post, Agustin’s second chapter, “Working to Travel; Traveling to Work,” in her book, Sex at the Margins, intervenes into a set of binary oppositions we hold about traveling, work, migrancy, agency, autonomy, and victims.
The discourse around migrancy, Agustin argues, too often views women as having no agency. They are, […]



god damned piece of shit mutherfookin lazy ass

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 11th, 2009 • Category: Laura Agustin, Nation State, Prostitution, Research, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Work, Sex at the Margins

there’s this guy on lbo who spend 99% of the time pulling stuff out of his ass and flinging it around so everyone else can enjoy the stench. which is to say, he’s almost always writing from the cuff, asking questions that would have been answered had he actually bothered to read the post or […]



moral entrepreneurialism and fundamentalist feminism

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 10th, 2009 • Category: Feminist Fight Club, Laura Agustin, Nation State, Prostitution, Radical Feminism, Research, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Positive Politics, Sex Work, Sex at the Margins, Third World Feminism

while this is out of order, I couldn’t resist writing a bit about Agustin’s ethnographically thick description of attending a conference on prostitution, one led by what we typically call abolitionists — activists who are opposed to prostitution and want to abolish it.
Agustin calls them moral entrepreneurs, which tickled me because it’s an old term […]



foo on agustin. the best part of her book is at the end!

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 9th, 2009 • Category: Laura Agustin, Sex at the Margins

dayum. I’m on the last chapter of agustin’s book where it gets really really good. she’s moving between thick description, anthropology-style, and analysis, covering things like the imposition of solidarity on sex workers on the part of progressive women who hand out condoms. they aren’t the moralizing sisters who are trying to rescue. no. they […]



tourism

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 2nd, 2009 • Category: Feminist Fight Club, Laura Agustin, Prostitution, Research, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Work, Sex at the Margins

a few years ago, in some one or other of the various instantiations of some sex war over prostitution, I pointed out at punkass blog that I knew of at least two women who had migrated from a rural area to an urban area and that they did so wanting to be sex workers. This […]



sex on the margins is a must-read

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 2nd, 2009 • Category: Feminist Fight Club, Laura Agustin, Nation State, Research, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Positive Politics, Sex at the Margins

if you have any interest at all in sex work, sex positive feminism, migrants, migrant workers, the prostitution wars then you really must read Laura Maria Augstin’s _Sex on the Margins_. I’ve mentioned her work before, quoting her articles and blog, and posting an interview with her on Doug Henwood’s radio program, Behind the News.
I […]



laura agustín on the rise of the “helping (save prostitutes) professions”

By shag carpet bomb • Sep 21st, 2008 • Category: Feminist Fight Club, Laura Agustin, Prostitution, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Positive Politics, Sex Work

Helping Women Who Sell Sex: The Construction of Benevolent Identities

This article addresses the governmental impulse to name particular commercial-sex practices as ‘prostitution’ and its practitioners as ‘prostitutes.’ Although it is conventional to refer to ‘the world’s oldest profession,’ the term prostitution has never described a clearly defined activity and was constructed by particular social actors […]



de-victimizing migrants

By shag carpet bomb • Aug 18th, 2008 • Category: Laura Agustin, Nation State, Prostitution, Racialization, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Work

an awesome interview with Laura D’Agustin, who also has a new blog, where I found this interview. the rest of it is about the panic that surrounds sex work, border crossing, and the rescue industry:
Most people do not arrive penniless, they arrive with their own or borrowed money, even if the amounts don’t seem large […]



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