Tremblay highlights the commonalities between sex work and other occupations. She is unapologetic in her critique of prohibitionists and illustrates the struggle to legitimize, decriminalize and protect sex workers. It is evident that in her work she aims to protect the sex worker community as a whole and the families who love and support them. Add to GoodReads. It explores how a group of ostracized female-identified sex workers transformed themselves into a collective to promote the health and well-being of women working in the sex industry.
Weighed down by the old and tenacious whore symbol, the sex workers at Stella had to find a way to navigate the criminality of sex work and sex workers, in order to do advocacy and support work, and create safer spaces for sex workers to engage in such advocacy. This book focuses on sex workers, but the advocacy challenges and strategies it outlines can also apply to the lives of other marginalized groups who are often ignored, pitied, or reviled, but who are seldom seen as fully human.
Lexington Books. Francine Tremblay teaches at Concordia University. By documenting the history of Stella, a sex worker-run health collective in Montreal, Dr. All while resisting the conflation of prostitution with human trafficking.
The attentive reader will learn much about grappling with the challenges of mobilizing sex workersβand other similarly marginalized groupsβin our current socio-legal environment. Table of Contents.
