Public women, profit, and femicide in northern Mexico

South Atlantic Quarterly

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 681-698

  Wright, Melissa W ^a  

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EID: 36348962639     PISSN: 00382876     EISSN: 15278026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00382876-2006-003     Document Type: Review

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4. Women who work in the sex industry have long encountered this discourse around the world, and many have organized against it and its logical implications. For instance, Ciudad Juárez sex workers have had to organize against a police effort to "clean up" the city by removing them from the downtown; see Melissa Wright, "From Protests to Politics: Sex Work, Women's Worth, and Ciudad Juárez Modernity," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94 (2004): 369-86. Nevertheless, the discourse that the public woman qua prostitute represents social contamination (and its many problems) remains alive and well around the world. When I refer to the "public woman," I refer to this discourse and not to the actual experiences of women who define themselves as public women within and outside the sex industry.
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