Organizing for sex workers' rights in Montréal : resistance and advocacy / Francine Tremblay
- Author
- Tremblay, Francine
- Published
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2020]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Physical Description
- xvi, 205 pages ; 23 cm
- Contents
- Introduction: The challenges of organizing for sex workers' rights : a glimpse into sex worker organizing in Montréal, Québec -- Montréal's sex industry, 1810-2000 -- Stella : the story recalled and analyzed from 1992 to 2000 withing the socio-medical and cultural context -- Sex work and the metropolis : the Pilot Project Initiative -- Stella's Forum XXX : celebrating a decade of action and designing our future -- Transformation of the landscape for sex worker organizing in Canada -- Final reflections : the trouble with sex in sex work.
- Summary
- This book explores how a group of ostracized female-identified sex workers transformed themselves into a collective to promote the health and well-being of women working in the sex industry.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781498593892
1498593895 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-197) and index.
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