Body/sex/work : intimate, embodied and sexualised labour /: intimate, embodied and sexualised labour. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Carol Wolkowitz, Reader, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK [and three others].
• Other Names: Wolkowitz, Carol editor of compilation.
• Contents: PART ONE: THEORISING BODY/SEX WORK; Introduction: The Body/Sex/Work Nexus; Rachel Lara Cohen, Kate Hardy, Teela Sanders, Carol Wolkowitz; Touching Moments: An Analysis of the Skillful Search for Dignity within Body Work Interactions; Marek Korczynski; Work Equal to Any Other, but Not the Same as Any Other: The Politics of Sexual Labour, the Body and Intercorporeality; Kate Hardy; ; PART TWO: THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND LEGAL CONTEXT OF BODY/SEX WORK; Legal Constructions of Body Work; Ann Stewart; Gender, Emotional Labour and Interactive Body Work: Negotiating Flesh and Fantasy in Sex Workers' Labour Practices; Barb Brents, Crystal Jackson; The Frontline Costs of the Southern Cross' Decline; Joe Greener; Hairdressing/undressing: Comparing Labour Relations in Self-employed Body Work; Teela Sanders, Rachel Lara Cohen and Kate Hardy; ; PART THREE: SEXUALISING BODIES IN THE LABOUR PROCESS; Altered Bodies, Engineered Careers: A Comparison of Body Technologies in Corporate and Do-It-Yourself Pornographic Productions; Lori Fazzino; From Erotic Capital to Erotic Knowledge: Body, Sexuality and Gender as Symbolic Skills in Phone Sex Work; Giulia Selmi; 'What Does a Manicure Have to Do With Sex?': Racialised Sexualisation of Body Labor in Routine Beauty Services; Miliann Kang; Touch in Holistic Massage: Ambiguities and Boundaries; Carrie Purcell; ; PART FOUR: DISCIPLINING AND RESISTANT BODIES; Racing Bodies; Janet Miller; Body work and Ageing: The Biomedicalization of Nutrition Practices; Giulia Rodeschini; Getting the Bodies of the Workers to the Bodies of the Clients: the Role of the Rota in Domiciliary Care; Gemma Wibberley; Saliva, Semen and Sanity: Flat-working Women in Hong Kong and Bodily Management Strategies; Olive Cheung
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 306.36; Gender Studies; Labor -- Social aspects; Work -- Social aspects; Sexual division of labor; Human body; Industrial sociology; Sex-oriented businesses; Prostitution & Sex Trade; Women in Business; Business & management; Personnel & human resources management
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137021922; 1137021926
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.