Sexuality & Culture

Volume 2 (1998)

THEMATIC ISSUE: SEX WORK AND SEX WORKERS

  

Editorial

Sex work, sex workers, and beyond
Barry M. Dank (Department of Sociology, Cal State Long Beach)

  

Articles

Twelve-Step Feminism Makes Sex Workers Sick: How the State and the Recovery Movement Turn Radical Women into "Useless Citizens"
Kari Lerum (Department of Sociology, University of Washington)
Recipient of the 1999 Student Paper Award from the
American Sociological Association's Sociology of Culture Section

Reframing "Eve" in the AIDS Era: The Pursuit of Legitimacy by New Zealand Sex Workers
Bronwen Lichtenstein (Department of Sociology, University of Alabama)

Long-Term Consumption of "X-Rated" Materials and Attitudes toward Women among Australian Consumers of X-Rated Videos
Roberto Hugh Potter (Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminology, Morehead State University)

Sex, Beach Boys, and Female Tourists in the Caribbean
Klaus de Albuquerque (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Charleston)

Invisible Man: A Queer Critique of Feminist Anti-Pornography Theory
Jody Norton (Department of English Language and Literature, Eastern Michigan University)

Theorizing Prostitution: The Question of Agency
Melanie Simmons (Department of Sociology, Florida State University)

Pole Work: Autoethnography of A Strip Club
Merri Lisa Johnson (Binghamton, New York)

  

Book Reviews

Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture, by Carol Queen
Daphne Patai (Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Massachusetts)

Trafficking in Women, Forced Labour and Slavery-Like Practices in Marriage, Domestic Labour and Prostitution, by M. Wijers and L. Lap-Chew
Jo Doezema (School of Social Sciences, University of Sussex)

Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor, by Wendy Chapkis
Leslie Cole (Departments of Sociology, University of Southern California)

New Sexual Agendas, edited by Lynne Segal
Wendy Chapkis (Departments of Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Southern Maine)

Three in Love, by Barbara Foster, Michael Foster and Letha Hadady
Nina Hartley (Berkeley, California)

Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood, by Naomi Wolf
Last Night in Paradise: Sex and Morals at Century's End, by Katie Roiphe
Cathy Young (Cato Institute)

Confronting Sexual Harassment, by Judith B. Brandenburg
Roberto Refinetti (Birmingham, Alabama)

Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment, by Jane Gallop
Valerie Jenness (School of Social Ecology, University of California)

The First Stone: Some Questions about Sex and Power, by Helen Garner
Roberto Hugh Potter (Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminology, Morehead State University)

Privacy and the Politics of Intimate Life, by Patricia Boling
Joseph S. Fulda (New York City)

  

Film Review

In the Company of Men, directed by Neil LaBute
Warren Farrell (Encinitas, California)

  

Personal Perspective

Hey, I'm a Femenist! A Male Professor Weighs in with Feminist Pedagogy
John C. Hampsey (English Department, California Polytechnic State University)