Books by Sara M Kallock
Handbook on the International Political Economy of Gender, 2018
The aim of this chapter is not to provide a comprehensive overview of feminist political economy ... more The aim of this chapter is not to provide a comprehensive overview of feminist political economy literature on sex work, but to sketch a rough-and-ready conceptual framework for a feminist political economy approach to global sexual commerce. A primary aim of feminist political economy is to explore how gender relations are constitutive of economic processes at the local and global levels (Zalewiski 2007). Sex markets are an appropriate focus of such an analysis because they are highly gendered socioeconomic formations which both impact women and shape gender discourses. This gendered character is not just due to the significant presence of women within the sector, but also to the growing demand for services and goods traditionally associated with "women's work" (Aganthangelou 2005; Freeman 2001; Smith 2011, 2012), under which the affective work of sexual intimacy could be classified, as well as to the sector's entanglement with the broader feminization of labour, poverty, and migration entailed by globalization. Key-but often overlooked-players in these gendered social processes are frontline health and social support practitioners and the agencies within which they work.
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Livable Intersections: Re/Framing Sex Work at the Frontline, 2018
What is it like to live a life that is impossible? For many of those who sex work, life is lived... more What is it like to live a life that is impossible? For many of those who sex work, life is lived at the crossroads of exclusion and assimilation, a crossroads where one is beset by vulnerability and regulation, where one is victimized and infantilized. Within this context of heteronormativity, sex working experiences are defined by multiple and overlapping forms of marginalization. Social support services are widely thought to provide a crucial bulwark against such unlivable realities by empowering service users to manage (and even overcome) their oppressive circumstances. Yet, such services are themselves often entangled with the social, cultural, and political processes that engender the disavowal of ‘sex’ as a form of ‘work’ and the attendant marginalization of sex workers. Bringing together insights from Judith Butler and intersectionality approaches, Livable Intersections investigates the dynamics of frontline policy practice and in the project of livability offers a new vision for designing, implementing, and valuing sex worker support services.
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Book Reviews by Sara M Kallock
An emerging refrain on the left is that the problems of sex work pertain to conditions of work un... more An emerging refrain on the left is that the problems of sex work pertain to conditions of work under capitalism rather than sex. This is carried out by Mac and Smith in their book Revolting Prostitutes and is a tendency I critique here.
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Papers by Sara M Kallock
Sexualities, 2017
This article introduces the concept of abnormativity as way of theorizing the realities of subjec... more This article introduces the concept of abnormativity as way of theorizing the realities of subjects who suffer from marginalization and/or erasure, specifically sex workers. It then develops livability as a playbook of political action which attends to the abnormative lives of sex workers by balancing resistance to institutionalized forms of marginalization with queer critical approaches to heteronormativity. It proposes this framework as suitable for frontline sex-worker support projects, outlining the limitations and benefits of three ethico-political models that aim to address the conditions of abnormativity: the politics of recognition, intersectional recognition, and critical intelligibility. It argues that each of these models is insufficient on its own, but that intersectional recognition and critical intelligibility can be mobilized productively together as the politics of livability.
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Sexualities, 2018
This article introduces the concept of abnormativity as way of theorizing the realities of subjec... more This article introduces the concept of abnormativity as way of theorizing the realities of subjects who suffer from marginalization and/or erasure, specifically sex workers. It then develops livability as a playbook of political action which attends to the abnormative lives of sex workers by balancing resistance to institutionalized forms of marginalization with queer critical approaches to heteronormativity. It proposes this framework as suitable for frontline sex-worker support projects, outlining the limitations and benefits of three ethico-political models that aim to address the conditions of abnormativity: the politics of recognition, intersectional recognition, and critical intelligibility. It argues that each of these models is insufficient on its own, but that intersectional recognition and critical intelligibility can be mobilized productively together as the politics of livability.
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