{"id":3559,"date":"2019-11-25T09:33:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T14:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/?p=3559"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:13:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:13:32","slug":"within-and-against-the-law-sex-work-marxist-feminism-and-the-politics-of-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/2019\/within-and-against-the-law-sex-work-marxist-feminism-and-the-politics-of-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Within and Against the Law:  Sex Work, Marxist Feminism, and the Politics of Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Within and Against the Law:  Sex Work, Marxist Feminism, and the Politics of Rights\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>All are invited to attend the Institute of Political Economy&#8217;s Visiting Professor Katie Cruz (University of Bristol Law School) on the rights of sex workers.<br>\nOver the past 30 years, the demand for sex workers\u2019 rights has&nbsp; gained momentum. In this talk, I apply a Marxist feminist legal approach to the use of rights by sex workers. Liberal legal rights must, I argue, be assessed historically and contextually according to their potential to chip away at the unfreedom (dispossession and dehumanisation) of workers that capitalism tends towards. Using England as a case study I sketch out the possibilities and limits of a particular civil rights strategy (the right to privacy) for limiting sex workers\u2019 unfreedom.<br>\n<strong>Wednesday December 4, 2:30-4:30 p.m. <\/strong><br>\n<strong>Room 2017 Dunton Tower<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All are invited to attend the Institute of Political Economy&#8217;s Visiting Professor Katie Cruz (University of Bristol Law School) on the rights of sex workers. Over the past 30 years, the demand for sex workers\u2019 rights has&nbsp; gained momentum. In this talk, I apply a Marxist feminist legal approach to the use of rights by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}