Making It Work: The Prostitutes' Rights Movement in Perspective

by Valerie Jenness

Book Overview

As its double-edged title suggests, Making It Work examines the oldest profession as just that: a service industry with professional sex workers. This reframing of prostitution is done by chronicling... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202304639
• ISBN13: 9780202304632
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Aldine Transaction
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A must-read for feminist scholars!

Jenness provides an in-depth look at the prostitutes' rights movement by taking both a social movement and a deviance approach. Jenness structures her work around seeing prostitution as a social problem - a social problem different organizations have tried to lay claim to for the past 200 years. Her main focus is on COYOTE, the movement's most active and visible actor since 1973, but she also spends considerable time on other influences, from the 19th century social purists to the women's movement today. In a wonderfully unbiased and detached manner, Jenness presents the conflicts that have arisen in both the prostitutes' rights movement and the women's movement over this issue. Should prostitution be eliminated or recognized as a profession? Are prostitutes to be pitied or respected as artisans?I give this book four stars because of its content and thorough research. Jenness' writing style can be difficult, so I recommend three or four sittings to complete the book.