Comments on: Oh Julian … you’re so emotionally mature …. *swoon* http://ana.people.vee.net/archives/2006/06/24/oh-julian-youre-so-emotionally-mature-swoon/ love in the time of cultural studies Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:21:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: not the motorcycle diaries » Lifestyle v Livelihood Activism: Sex Work in Global Context http://ana.people.vee.net/archives/2006/06/24/oh-julian-youre-so-emotionally-mature-swoon/#comment-102805 Wed, 16 May 2007 05:04:59 +0000 http://ana.people.vee.net/archives/2006/06/24/oh-julian-youre-so-emotionally-mature-swoon/#comment-102805 [...] Celebrating sex work as part of liberation from gender and sexuality norms (imposed by both patriarchal/heteronormative society and canonical feminism) must not overlook the fact that (in both first and third world contexts) it is globally speaking, predominantly *not* a ‘work choice’ in the same way as a lot of other work. This is reflected in the kinds of activism that different kinds of ’sex workers’ do. The twelve year old Cambodian ’sex worker’ (or the heroin addicted single mum in Kings Cross, even) is not the same as the North Shore escort agency ’sex worker’, even though their clientele might not look much different. As a result, their activism operates on very different points of a continuum between livelihood and lifestyle. I guess it’s difficult for academics to separate them out in one book, article, or conference presentation - but I think it’s important to and I don’t see it done very often. And I always feel like, when I suggest that this separation could be made more adequately, I’m doing the hardfaced radical feminist thing: throwing cold water on the academic climax with my old school materialism (which, I suppose, says something about my insecurity at being an unsexy academic, as well as the way in which sexual morality can be reinscribed in so called “anti-morality” environments).   [...] […] Celebrating sex work as part of liberation from gender and sexuality norms (imposed by both patriarchal/heteronormative society and canonical feminism) must not overlook the fact that (in both first and third world contexts) it is globally speaking, predominantly *not* a ‘work choice’ in the same way as a lot of other work. This is reflected in the kinds of activism that different kinds of ’sex workers’ do. The twelve year old Cambodian ’sex worker’ (or the heroin addicted single mum in Kings Cross, even) is not the same as the North Shore escort agency ’sex worker’, even though their clientele might not look much different. As a result, their activism operates on very different points of a continuum between livelihood and lifestyle. I guess it’s difficult for academics to separate them out in one book, article, or conference presentation - but I think it’s important to and I don’t see it done very often. And I always feel like, when I suggest that this separation could be made more adequately, I’m doing the hardfaced radical feminist thing: throwing cold water on the academic climax with my old school materialism (which, I suppose, says something about my insecurity at being an unsexy academic, as well as the way in which sexual morality can be reinscribed in so called “anti-morality” environments).   […]

]]> by: ann http://ana.people.vee.net/archives/2006/06/24/oh-julian-youre-so-emotionally-mature-swoon/#comment-47737 Tue, 27 Jun 2006 06:16:12 +0000 http://ana.people.vee.net/archives/2006/06/24/oh-julian-youre-so-emotionally-mature-swoon/#comment-47737 Fo shiz. Foucault shiz. Fo shiz.

Foucault shiz.

]]> by: Ianto http://ana.people.vee.net/archives/2006/06/24/oh-julian-youre-so-emotionally-mature-swoon/#comment-47696 Tue, 27 Jun 2006 04:33:25 +0000 http://ana.people.vee.net/archives/2006/06/24/oh-julian-youre-so-emotionally-mature-swoon/#comment-47696 Isn't that like total Will to Knowledge Foucault; "What sustains our eagerness to speak of sex in terms of repression is doubtless this opportunity to speak out against the powers that be, to utter truths and promise bliss" and so on and so forth. Isn’t that like total Will to Knowledge Foucault; “What sustains our eagerness to speak of sex in terms of repression is doubtless this opportunity to speak out against the powers that be, to utter truths and promise bliss” and so on and so forth.

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