Sex Work, Labour and Relations

Teela Sanders is Professor of Criminology at the University of Leicester, UK. Sitting on the borders of criminology and sociology, she explores the inter-relationship between human sexuality and socio-legal structures. 

Kathryn McGarry is Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Social Policy at Maynooth University, Ireland. Kathryn's research interests include gender, risk and social justice, sexuality and the law and critical feminist methodologies. 

Part 1: Work, Labour, and Relations.- Chapter 1: Trophy Hunting and the Celebrity Porn Star; Examining interactions between Pornography Performers and their Fans, Protestors, and Saviours.- Chapter 2: Sex Workers Rights Are Human Rights. Or Not? The Art of Stealing Back Human Rights.- Chapter 3: Colleagues, Councils, and Club Owners: The Materialisation of the Whorearchy inside British Strip Clubs.- Chapter 4: Timely Telling Tweets: Using social media data to tell the stories of window sex workers in Amsterdam facing major changes to their working conditions.- Chapter 5: SWAGS: Sex workers and An Garda Síochána - Reimagining sex work policing in Ireland.- Part 2: Relationships, Identity, and Harm.- Chapter 6: Carnal Knowledge: Epistemic Injustice and the Wisdom of Whores. Bella Matos & Jack Woods, The American University of Paris & University of Leeds.- Chapter 7: Capturing Accidental Moments - The Self-Reflective Researcher and the Utility of the Research Diary.- Chapter 8: Risk factors related to sexual exploitation for a cohort of female sex workers in Bogotá.- Chapter 9: Imagining the Subversive Potential of Sex Workers' Humour.- Chapter 10: Reading In and Writing Out: Origins and Impacts of Approaches to Sex Work in Biblical and Theological Scholarship.- Chapter 11: "Though we are often invisible, we are always taking care of each other ": mutual care among sex workers.