Based on the sex workers' own voice and their experiences in a legal space that does not criminalize or discriminate against the trade, Sex Work with Rights is not limited to describing a specific reality, but manages to provide a new and deeper vision on the issue. Aspects such as the different forms of stigma, the double or triple discrimination of trans workers or migrant workers, the subjectivity of clients, the limits of legality and the liberal notion of rights, and the keys to the self-organization of sex workers appear here in another light.

Through a broad and complete critical apparatus, this book not only exposes in detail the decriminalizing alternative in terms of the legal framework, but also raises the confrontation of the persistent patriarchal and repressive frameworks from the incidence on the rights and the first-person action of sex workers.

Faced with the offensives that seek to maintain or expel them to a regime of social and legal apartheid under the pretext of their salvation, this work bets on the strengthening of the legitimacy, rights and organizational capacity of sex workers as the only truly emancipatory way.

Authors:

• Lynzi Armstrong (1984) Professor of Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington, has been involved in sex work research for over a decade. She has addressed issues such as the experiences of street sex workers in violence and the autonomous organization of sex workers in response to anti-trafficking policies. The construction and role of stigma has been a key concept in her work and her research in recent years has focused on the relationship between stigma and discrimination of sex work in different legislative contexts.
• Gillian Abel (1960) Professor and Head of the Department of Public Health at the University of Otago, has researched the impacts of the decriminalisation of sex work on the health, safety and human rights of sex workers, through participatory community-based methodologies.
• Prologue by Paula Sánchez Perera.
• Epilogue of the Collective of Prostitutes of Seville.

Publisher: Virus.

Pages: 336.