Unpacking Tourism

Contributors to this special issue examine language associated with the sex trades, including contentious words—and feminist issues—with complex histories and diverse political effects, such as prostitution, sex work, trafficking, and decriminalization. The authors trace the intellectual genealogies of terms such as sex worker, red light district, and white slavery to consider how such terms are affected by competing histories, political and linguistic cultures of translation, and different contexts of scholarship, advocacy, and policy.
 
Contributors: Ryvka Barnard, Daniel Bender, Julio Capo Jr., Rüstem Ertug Altinay, Steven Fabian, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Max Holleran, Rebecca J. Kinney, Scott Laderman, Katrina Phillips, Mark Rice, Jason Ruiz, Daniel Walkowitz, Kim Warren