Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition

308 Pages·1998·13.171 MB·English

by  Kamala Kempadoo, Jo Doezema

Global Sex Workers
edited by
Kamala Kempadoo &
Jo Doezema

Global Gex Workers

Global Sex Workers
Rights, Resistance, and Redefinitinn
edited by
Kamala Kempadoo
and
Jo Doezema
Routledge
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Published in 1998 by
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Global sex workers : rights, resistance, and redefinition /
edited by Kamala Kempadoo and Jo Doezema.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-415-91828-6 (cloth). — ISBN 0-415-91829-4 (pbk.)
I. Prostitution—Cross-cultural studies. 2. Prostitutes—Civil
rights—Cross-cultural studies. I. Kempadoo, Kamala.
II. Doezema, Jo.
HQ111.G561998 97-45759
306.74—dc2i CIP
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Globalizing Sex Workers’ Rights I
Kamala Kempadoo
PART ONE: RETHINKING SEX WORK
Introduction 29
1. Forced to Choose: Beyond the Voluntary v.
Forced Prostitution Dichotomy 34
Jo Doezema
2. Debt-Bondage and Trafficking:
Don’t Believe the Hype 51
Alison Murray
3. An International Perspective on Slavery
in the Sex Industry 65
Jo Bindman
4. Women, Labor, and Migration: The Position of
Trafficked Women and Strategies for Support 69
Marjan Wijers
5. Discourses of Prostitution: The Case of Cuba 79
Amalia Lucia Cabezas
6. Prostitution, Stigma, and the Law in Japan:
A Feminist Roundtable Discussion 87
Group Sisterhood
PART TWO: MIGRATIONS AND TOURISM
Introduction 99
7. Ghanaian Women and Prostitution in Cote d’Ivoire 104
John K. Anarfi
8. From Thailand to Japan: Migrant Sex Workers as
Autonomous Subjects 114
Satoko Watenabe
9. The Migrant Tightrope: Experiences from
the Caribbean 124
Kamala Kempadoo
10. Children, Prostitution, and Identity: A Case Study
from a Tourist Resort in Thailand 139
Heather Montgomery
n. Hustling for Dollars: Jineterismo in Cuba 151
Coco Fusco
PART THREE: SEX WORKERS’ ORGANIZATIONS
Introduction 167
12. The Association of Autonomous Women Workers,
Ecuador, “22nd June” 172
Angelita Abad, Marena Briones, Tatiana Cordero,
Rosa Manzo and Marta Marchan
13. Japanese Sex Workers: Encourage, Empower, Trust,
and Love Yourselves! 178
Momocca Momocco
14. The Exotic Dancers Alliance: An Interview with
Dawn Passar and Johanna Breyer 182
Kamala Kempadoo
15. SWEAT: The Development and Implementation of
a Sex Worker Advocacy and Intervention Program
in Post-Apartheid South Africa 192
Shane A. Petzer and Gordon M. Issacs
16. A World of People: Sex Workers in Mexico 19
Claudia Colimoro interviewed by Amalia Lucia Cabezas
17. The Wind of Change Is Whispering at Your Door:
The Mahila Samanwaya Committee 20
Minu Pal, Sadhana Mukherji,
Madhabi Jaiswal and Bachhu Dutta
18. International Activism: Jo Doezema interviews
NWSP Coordinator, Cheryl Overs 20
19- Transgenders and Sex Work in Malaysia 210
Khartim Slamah
20. It’s Good to Know: The Maxi Linder
Association in Suriname 215
Dusilley Cannings, Juanita Altenberg,
Judi Reichart, and Kamala Kempadoo
PART FOUR: AIDS PREVENTION AND
SEX WORKERS’ EMPOWERMENT
Introduction 227
21. The Pegafao Program: Information, Prevention
and Empowerment of Young Male Sex Workers
in Rio de Janiero 231
Paulo Hennque Longo
22. Prostitution in Senegal 240
Oumar Tandia
23. The TAMPEP Project in Western Europe 246
Lida Brussa
24. COIN and MODEMU in the Dominican Republic 260
Kamala Kempadoo
Bibliography 267
Contributors and Contributing Organizations 279
Index 283