Sex work, essential work: A historical and (necro)political analysis of sex work in times of covid-19 in Brazil
Social Sciences
; 10(1):1-20, 2021.
Article
in English
| Scopus | ID: covidwho-1029971
ABSTRACT
Brazil has made international headlines for the government’s inept and irresponsible response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, sex worker activists have once again taken on an essential role in responding to the pandemic amidst State absences and abuses. Drawing on the theoretical framework of necropolitics, we trace the gendered, sexualized, and racialized dimensions of how prostitution and work have been (un)governed in Brazil and how this has framed sex worker activists’ responses to COVID-19. As a group of scholars and sex worker activists based in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, we specifically explore the idea of sex workers as “essential workers”, but also of sex work as, essentially, work, demonstrating complicities, differences, and congruencies in how sex workers see what they do and who their allies in the context of the 21st century’s greatest health crisis to date. © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Full text:
Available
Collection:
Databases of international organizations
Database:
Scopus
Country/Region as subject:
South America
/
Brazil
Language:
English
Journal:
Social Sciences
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Similar
MEDLINE
...
LILACS
LIS