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To Live Freely in This World

Sex Worker Activism in Africa
Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
2016
New York University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-1756-6 (ISBN)
92,25 inkl. MwSt
Sex worker activists throughout Africa are demanding an end to the criminalization of sex work and the recognition of their human rights to safe working conditions, health and justice services, and lives free from violence and discrimination. To Live Freely in This World is the first book to tell the story of the brave activists at the beating heart of the sex workers’ rights movement in Africa—the newest and most vibrant face of the global sex workers’ rights struggle. African sex worker activists are proving that communities facing human rights abuses are not bereft of agency. They’re challenging politicians, religious fundamentalists, and anti-prostitution advocates; confronting the multiple stigmas that affect the diverse members of their communities; engaging in intersectional movement building with similarly marginalized groups; and participating in the larger global sex workers’ rights struggle in order to determine their social and political fate.

By locating this counter-narrative in Africa, To Live Freely in This World challenges disempowering and one-dimensional depictions of “degraded Third World prostitutes” and helps fill what has been a gaping hole in feminist scholarship regarding sex work in the African context. Based on original fieldwork in seven African countries, including Botswana, Kenya, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda, Chi Adanna Mgbako draws on extensive interviews with over 160 African female and male (cisgender and transgender) sex worker activists, and weaves their voices and experiences into a fascinating, richly-detailed, and powerful examination of the history and continuing activism of this young movement.

Chi Adanna Mgbako is Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Walter Leitner International Human Rights Clinic in the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 8.1.2016
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sexualität / Partnerschaft
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Kriminologie
ISBN-10 1-4798-1756-2 / 1479817562
ISBN-13 978-1-4798-1756-6 / 9781479817566
Zustand Neuware
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