LEADER 03275nam 22006735 450 001 9910554217603321 005 20240229155204.0 010 $a1-5036-2975-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781503629752 035 $a(CKB)5680000000010201 035 $a(DE-B1597)613610 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781503629752 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7012551 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7012551 035 $a(EXLCZ)995680000000010201 100 $a20220110h20212021 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPolicing Bodies $eLaw, Sex Work, and Desire in Johannesburg /$fI. India Thusi 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aStanford, CA :$cStanford University Press,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 311 $a1-5036-2974-0 311 $a1-5036-2922-8 330 $aSex 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. 606 $aHuman rights$zSouth Africa 606 $aLaw enforcement$zSouth Africa$zJohannesburg 606 $aProstitution$xLaw and legislation$zSouth Africa 606 $aProstitution$zSouth Africa$zJohannesburg 606 $aSex workers$xLegal status, laws, etc$zSouth Africa 606 $aLAW / Gender & the Law$2bisacsh 610 $a(de)criminalization. 610 $acriminal law. 610 $aethnography. 610 $afeminism. 610 $agender. 610 $ahuman rights. 610 $apolicing of sex. 610 $aprostitution. 610 $asex work. 610 $asexuality. 615 0$aHuman rights 615 0$aLaw enforcement 615 0$aProstitution$xLaw and legislation 615 0$aProstitution 615 0$aSex workers$xLegal status, laws, etc. 615 7$aLAW / Gender & the Law. 676 $a306.74096822/15 700 $aThusi$b I. India$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01717591 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910554217603321 996 $aPolicing Bodies$94113946 997 $aUNINA