Review of: Maritza Le Breton: Sexarbeit als transnationale Zone der Prekarität. Migrierende Sexarbeiterinnen im Spannungsfeld von Gewalterfahrungen und Handlungsoptionen. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2011.

Authors

  • Veronika Ott Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main; Philipps-Universität Marburg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/1013

Keywords:

Prostitution, Gewalt, Soziale Ungleichheit, Migration, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

Empirical studies on migration and sex work seldom offer female sex workers themselves the chance to speak. However, Maritza Le Breton’s dissertation succeeds in achieving exactly this; she makes room for otherwise (epistemologically) marginalized protagonists. It is her goal to look at and flesh out their actual experiences (of violence) as well as their life and work situation in order to thus make this important addressee’s knowledge accessible for social work. Based on twenty-one problem-centered interviews with migrated female sex workers, who work in contact bars and salons in Basel/Switzerland, she portrays relationships of violence and constellations of power in sex economics as well as the sex workers’ courses of action.

Author Biography

Veronika Ott, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main; Philipps-Universität Marburg

International PhD Program „Democracy, Knowledge, and Gender in a Transnational World“ (Frankfurt); Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft am Zentrum für Gender Studies und feministische Zukunftsforschung (Marburg)
“Metro de París” by jdelcidr

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Published

2012-03-29

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2012)

Section

Rezensionen

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Copyright (c) 2012 Veronika Ott

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