March 2014 Academic & Specialist Beacon Press

Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk Melinda Chateauvert

A provocative history which reveals how sex workers have been at the vanguard of social justice movements for the past fifty years, building a movement that challenges our ideas about labor, sexuality, feminism, and freedom. Documenting five decades of sex worker activism From Stonewall to Slutwalk, puts prostitutes, hustlers, call girls, strippers, and porn stars in the center of struggles f or gay liberation, women's rights, reproductive justice, union organizing, prison abolition, and more. By putting labor at the forefront, Chateauvert reframes sex work as work and argues that sex worker rights are ultimately human rights