03275nam 22006735 450 991055421760332120240229155204.01-5036-2975-910.1515/9781503629752(CKB)5680000000010201(DE-B1597)613610(DE-B1597)9781503629752(MiAaPQ)EBC7012551(Au-PeEL)EBL7012551(EXLCZ)99568000000001020120220110h20212021 fg engur||#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPolicing Bodies Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johannesburg /I. India Thusi1st ed.Stanford, CA :Stanford University Press,[2021]©20211 online resource (240 p.)1-5036-2974-0 1-5036-2922-8 Sex work occupies a legally gray space in Johannesburg, South Africa, and police attitudes towards it are inconsistent and largely unregulated. As I. India Thusi argues in Policing Bodies, this results in both room for negotiation that can benefit sex workers and also extreme precarity in which the security police officers provide can be offered and taken away at a moment's notice. Sex work straddles the line between formal and informal. Attitudes about beauty and subjective value are manifest in formal tasks, including police activities, which are often conducted in a seemingly ad hoc manner. However, high-level organizational directives intended to regulate police obligations and duties toward sex workers also influence police action and tilt the exercise of discretion to the formal. In this liminal space, this book considers how sex work is policed and how it should be policed. Challenging discourses about sexuality and gender that inform its regulation, Thusi exposes the limitations of dominant feminist arguments regarding the legal treatment of sex work. This in-depth, historically informed ethnography illustrates the tension between enforcing a country's laws and protecting citizens' human rights.Human rightsSouth AfricaLaw enforcementSouth AfricaJohannesburgProstitutionLaw and legislationSouth AfricaProstitutionSouth AfricaJohannesburgSex workersLegal status, laws, etcSouth AfricaLAW / Gender & the Lawbisacsh(de)criminalization.criminal law.ethnography.feminism.gender.human rights.policing of sex.prostitution.sex work.sexuality.Human rightsLaw enforcementProstitutionLaw and legislationProstitutionSex workersLegal status, laws, etc.LAW / Gender & the Law.306.74096822/15Thusi I. Indiaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1717591DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910554217603321Policing Bodies4113946UNINA