Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (758 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226044580 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. Rather than the expedient exchange of cash for sexual relations, what sex workers are increasingly paid to offer their clients is an erotic experience premised upon the performance of authentic interpersonal connection. Not simply a compelling exploration of the changing landscape of sex-work, Temporarily Yours ultimately lays bare the intimate intersections of political economy, desire, and culture.. 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, meanings, and spatial organization of sexual labor.Drawing upon dynamic and innovative research with sex workers, their clients, and state actors, Bernstein argues that in cities such as San Francisco, Stockholm, and Amstersdam, the nature of what is purchased in commercial sexual encounters is also n
Definitely worth your time I'm reading this book for my Master of Sexuality Studies program and it is the most accessible book we've read all semester. It is eloquently written, without all the unnecessary academic jargon. It's also a fascinating look at the San Francisco sex industry.. Understanding a Not-So-Underground Trade K. N. Elizabeth Bernstein's ethnography *Temporarily Yours* is arguably the most illuminating account of the domestic sex trade to be published in the last decade. In it Bernstein shows how large-scale transformations to the U.S. political economy have affected prostitution work in urban areas. Her arg. John P. Anderson said Almost Nothing About Intimacy, Authenticity or Contemporary Sexual Commerce. I had high expectations, but I am pretty disappointed with this book even after giving it a second try, a year after I originally ordered it. There is some historical information about the commerce of sex in San Francisco, Amsterdam and Stockholm, but almost nothing in terms of intimacy and authe
"This is an ambitious book—highly readable, compelling, and original. Whereas the signature form of sex work used to be the non-white streetwalker working in largely marginal neighborhoods, today, she reveals, sex work is largely private, relying heavily on the Internet, and provided by someone that is as often white and middle-class as non-white and poor.". Bernstein’s claim is that the character and organization of sex work has shifted between the modern industrial to late-capitalist periods