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Global Sex Workers edited by Kamala Kempadoo & Jo Doezema Global Gex Workers Global Sex Workers Rights, Resistance, and Redefinitinn edited by Kamala Kempadoo and Jo Doezema Routledge New York and London Published in 1998 by Routledge 29 West 35th Street New York, NY 10001 Published in Great Britain by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane London EC4P 4EE Copyright © 1998 by Routledge. Printed in the United States on acid-free paper All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Global sex workers : rights, resistance, and redefinition / edited by Kamala Kempadoo and Jo Doezema. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-415-91828-6 (cloth). — ISBN 0-415-91829-4 (pbk.) I. Prostitution—Cross-cultural studies. 2. Prostitutes—Civil rights—Cross-cultural studies. I. Kempadoo, Kamala. II. Doezema, Jo. HQ111.G561998 97-45759 306.74—dc2i CIP Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Globalizing Sex Workers’ Rights I Kamala Kempadoo PART ONE: RETHINKING SEX WORK Introduction 29 1. Forced to Choose: Beyond the Voluntary v. Forced Prostitution Dichotomy 34 Jo Doezema 2. Debt-Bondage and Trafficking: Don’t Believe the Hype 51 Alison Murray 3. An International Perspective on Slavery in the Sex Industry 65 Jo Bindman 4. Women, Labor, and Migration: The Position of Trafficked Women and Strategies for Support 69 Marjan Wijers 5. Discourses of Prostitution: The Case of Cuba 79 Amalia Lucia Cabezas 6. Prostitution, Stigma, and the Law in Japan: A Feminist Roundtable Discussion 87 Group Sisterhood PART TWO: MIGRATIONS AND TOURISM Introduction 99 7. Ghanaian Women and Prostitution in Cote d’Ivoire 104 John K. Anarfi 8. From Thailand to Japan: Migrant Sex Workers as Autonomous Subjects 114 Satoko Watenabe 9. The Migrant Tightrope: Experiences from the Caribbean 124 Kamala Kempadoo 10. Children, Prostitution, and Identity: A Case Study from a Tourist Resort in Thailand 139 Heather Montgomery n. Hustling for Dollars: Jineterismo in Cuba 151 Coco Fusco PART THREE: SEX WORKERS’ ORGANIZATIONS Introduction 167 12. The Association of Autonomous Women Workers, Ecuador, “22nd June” 172 Angelita Abad, Marena Briones, Tatiana Cordero, Rosa Manzo and Marta Marchan 13. Japanese Sex Workers: Encourage, Empower, Trust, and Love Yourselves! 178 Momocca Momocco 14. The Exotic Dancers Alliance: An Interview with Dawn Passar and Johanna Breyer 182 Kamala Kempadoo 15. SWEAT: The Development and Implementation of a Sex Worker Advocacy and Intervention Program in Post-Apartheid South Africa 192 Shane A. Petzer and Gordon M. Issacs 16. A World of People: Sex Workers in Mexico 19 Claudia Colimoro interviewed by Amalia Lucia Cabezas 17. The Wind of Change Is Whispering at Your Door: The Mahila Samanwaya Committee 20 Minu Pal, Sadhana Mukherji, Madhabi Jaiswal and Bachhu Dutta 18. International Activism: Jo Doezema interviews NWSP Coordinator, Cheryl Overs 20 19- Transgenders and Sex Work in Malaysia 210 Khartim Slamah 20. It’s Good to Know: The Maxi Linder Association in Suriname 215 Dusilley Cannings, Juanita Altenberg, Judi Reichart, and Kamala Kempadoo PART FOUR: AIDS PREVENTION AND SEX WORKERS’ EMPOWERMENT Introduction 227 21. The Pegafao Program: Information, Prevention and Empowerment of Young Male Sex Workers in Rio de Janiero 231 Paulo Hennque Longo 22. Prostitution in Senegal 240 Oumar Tandia 23. The TAMPEP Project in Western Europe 246 Lida Brussa 24. COIN and MODEMU in the Dominican Republic 260 Kamala Kempadoo Bibliography 267 Contributors and Contributing Organizations 279 Index 283
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