LGB women and sex work
(2024)
Book Chapter
All Outputs (22)
Supporting formerly incarcerated people before and during COVID-19: is socially distanced (re)integration possible? (2023)
Journal Article
Returning to the community after being incarcerated brings many challenges. In Victoria, Australia, a government-funded contract with non-government organisations (NGOs) allocates reintegration workers to assist with the post-release social integrati... Read More about Supporting formerly incarcerated people before and during COVID-19: is socially distanced (re)integration possible?.
Reentry support in Victoria, Australia: managing risk, or fostering agency? (2023)
Journal Article
More than half of Australia’s prison population have experienced prior incarceration. Factors such as homelessness, mental illness, and poverty compound the challenges of reentry. Reentry support in Victoria, Australia is state funded, yet delivered... Read More about Reentry support in Victoria, Australia: managing risk, or fostering agency?.
‘It’s not designed for women at all’: exploring service providers’ perspectives of working in the Victorian criminal justice system (2020)
Journal Article
Gender, crime, incarceration, mental health and trauma have a complex history of interaction. This project aimed to explore service providers’ experiences of supporting incarcerated women with a mental illness in Victoria, Australia. Data collection... Read More about ‘It’s not designed for women at all’: exploring service providers’ perspectives of working in the Victorian criminal justice system.
‘Typical scripts’ and their silences: exploring myths about sexual violence and LGBTQ people from the perspectives of support workers (2019)
Journal Article
Sexism, heterosexism and cissexism shape what is visible and knowable about sexual violence for LGBTQ people. While there is a plethora of research into ‘rape myths’ as they pertain to cisgender women’s experiences of sexual violence perpetrated by c... Read More about ‘Typical scripts’ and their silences: exploring myths about sexual violence and LGBTQ people from the perspectives of support workers.
Sex work (2018)
Book Chapter
Sex work is a highly contested, deeply moral, and politicized terrain. This entry examines the nature of anthropological knowledge about sex work and the ways of knowing, seeing, and communicating about sexual commerce. It discusses the sex work and... Read More about Sex work.
Human Trafficking on the Global Periphery: A Terrible Spectacle (2018)
Book Chapter
In mainstream criminological research, human trafficking has been constructed as a form of transnational organized crime, with the institutionalization of this approach reflected in international criminal law. Based on ethnographic research and secon... Read More about Human Trafficking on the Global Periphery: A Terrible Spectacle.
Globalization and gender frontiers (2018)
Book Chapter
Evidence review of respectful relationships resources (2017)
Report
Women and sex work in Cambodia: Blood, sweat and tears (2014)
Book
© 2014 Larissa Sandy. All rights reserved. Prostitution is strongly embedded in local cultural practices in Cambodia. Based on extensive original research, this book explores the nature of prostitution in Cambodia, providing explanations of why the p... Read More about Women and sex work in Cambodia: Blood, sweat and tears.
Commentary: Thaddeus Blanchette and Ana Paula da Silva’s Myth of Maria (2013)
Journal Article
International politics, anti-trafficking measures and sex work in Cambodia (2012)
Book Chapter
Cambodia has long been identified as a human trafficking ‘hotspot’ (see Molland in this volume) and, after sustained pressure from the US and other governments, in February 2008 the Royal Government of Cambodia promulgated its Law on the Suppression... Read More about International politics, anti-trafficking measures and sex work in Cambodia.
International politics, anti-trafficking measures and sex work in Cambodia (2012)
Book Chapter
International agendas and sex worker rights in Cambodia (2012)
Book Chapter
'Behind closed doors': Debt-Bonded sex workers in Sihanoukville, Cambodia (2009)
Journal Article
In the trafficking discourse and international law, debt-bonded sex workers have been defined as 'victims of trafficking'. The hyperexploitative contractual arrangements faced by debt-bonded sex workers may be the most common form of contemporary for... Read More about 'Behind closed doors': Debt-Bonded sex workers in Sihanoukville, Cambodia.
Just choices: Representations of choice and coercion in sex work in Cambodia (2007)
Journal Article
In global discourses about sex work, the image of the 'sex slave' has been influential in constructing the view of women working in the sex industry in developing countries as 'victims'. This paper examines the perpetuation of such discourses through... Read More about Just choices: Representations of choice and coercion in sex work in Cambodia.