Temporarily Yours Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex

Name: Temporarily Yours Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex
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ISBN: 9780226044583

ISBN-10: 0226044580

ISBN-13: 9780226044583

Edition: 2007

Authors: Elizabeth Bernstein

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Generations of social thinkers have assumed that access to legitimate paid employment and a decline in the 'double standard' would eliminate the reasons behind women's participation in prostitution. Yet in both the developing world and in postindustrial cities of the West, sexual commerce has continued to flourish, diversifying along technological, spatial, and social lines. In this deeply engaging and theoretically provocative study, Elizabeth Bernstein examines the social features that undergird the expansion and diversification of commercialized sex, demonstrating the ways that postindustrial economic and cultural formations have spawned rapid and unforeseen changes in the forms,…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Sexual Commerce in Postindustrial Culture



Remapping the Boundaries of "Vice"



Modern Prostitution and Its Remnants



The Privatization of Public Women



Desire, Demand, and the Commerce of Sex



The State, Sexuality, and the Market



Sexuality Debates and Pleasure Wars


Appendix: Methodology


Notes Bibliography


Index