Sex and Stigma

"Sex and Stigmalays the groundwork for greater understanding of the everyday routines and work-life considerations of legal sex workers. This book is both significant and distinctive for the authors ability to take a phenomenon that typically is considered hidden and stigmatized and attach real faces, lives, workplace, and home issues to these women. Insightful and illuminating." -- Patrice M. Buzzanell,editor of Rethinking Organizational and Managerial Communication from Feminist Perspectives "Sex and Stigmais an engaging and informative book, blending first-person perspectives with feminist scholarship todemystify the brothel as a workplace. A smart and innovative study,readers will benefit fromthe authors blend of scholarly expertise, theirunique access to a difficult-to-reach population, and the inclusion of multiple sex workers perspectives." -- Shira Tarrant,author of The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know "Pushing beyond the well-trod debate of whether prostitution should exist at all, the authors instead emphasize the issues of labor, stigma, secrecy, privacy, and discrimination within legal prostitution issues that the authors rightly note are generally deemphasized in comparison with headline-grabbing news and analysis of the illegal sex trade." * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies * "The valuable research presented by these authors [...] is leading to a more comprehensive understanding of the lives of women who work in this highly regulated form of sex work." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews *

Sarah Jane Blithe is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. Anna Wiederhold Wolfe is Assistant Professor of Organizational Communication at Texas A&M University. Breanna Mohr is an M.A. student at the University of Nevada, Reno. In addition to her education and research, Ms. Mohr works full time in a legal brothel.