Sex, Work and Sex Work: Eroticizing Organization

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Dedication......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Introduction......Page 10
Outline of the book......Page 14
Methods and approach......Page 18
Economy and work......Page 22
Abjection......Page 23
The erotic and eroticization......Page 24
Part I Reading sex intoorganization......Page 26
Introduction......Page 28
Men, violence and management......Page 29
The promise of violence......Page 31
Like a bat out of hell…......Page 32
Introducing the abject......Page 34
Narcissism, the ego-ideal and the superego......Page 35
Masculinities and violence......Page 39
The sting of deprivation......Page 43
Violence and addictive behaviour......Page 46
Victims living on......Page 49
Work behaviour and the legacy of violence......Page 52
Conclusion......Page 54
Introduction......Page 58
Background to Hong Kong’s airline......Page 59
A case study of the Cathay Pacific flight attendants’strike......Page 60
Outline of events......Page 62
The occupational gendering of flight attendants......Page 64
Discipline and appearance......Page 65
Anxiety and discipline......Page 67
The pornographic gaze......Page 68
Masculinity and desire......Page 70
Masculinity and rationality......Page 73
Self-exposure and manipulation in public......Page 74
Conclusion......Page 78
Introduction......Page 80
Harassment, the passions and the abject......Page 83
Power and sexual harassment......Page 87
Women and sexual harassment......Page 93
Men and sexual harassment......Page 101
Conclusion......Page 105
Introduction......Page 106
A methodological aside......Page 112
The role of the professional and the persona of theoffender......Page 113
Confronting the crime......Page 118
What does it mean to fail?......Page 121
Occupational context......Page 125
Conclusion......Page 129
Introduction......Page 134
Sadomasochism and pleasure......Page 136
Sadomasochism and ritual......Page 141
Sadomasochism and intimacy......Page 146
Problematizing sadomasochism......Page 150
What of organizations?......Page 153
Conclusion......Page 157
Introduction......Page 160
Modernity, rationality and sexuality......Page 161
Let’s get loved up......Page 164
Critical modernist re-eroticization theory......Page 165
Postmodernist re-eroticization theory......Page 170
Reich, Marcuse and the ordering of disorder......Page 177
Cixous, Baudrillard and the conceptualization of thefeminine......Page 180
Re-reading desire......Page 183
Conclusion......Page 190
Part II Reading organizationinto sex......Page 194
Introduction......Page 196
Discursive sexuality across time and place......Page 199
Discourse, desire and prostitution......Page 205
Bodies without Organs......Page 208
The power of desire......Page 211
Conclusion......Page 213
Introduction......Page 216
Consumption, the commodification of pleasure andprostitution in Western modernity......Page 217
Maintaining the mask (i): drug use......Page 222
Maintaining the mask (ii): bodies, rituals, geography......Page 223
Maintaining the mask (iii): the meaning of work......Page 227
The client body: typologies......Page 228
Work versus leisure in prostitution......Page 231
Conclusion......Page 233
Introduction......Page 236
Victims or feminists?......Page 237
Social problem or sexual educators?......Page 242
Scraping a living or career professionals?......Page 244
Conclusion......Page 250
Introduction......Page 252
Sex and place......Page 253
The context of sex work......Page 256
Cultural context......Page 257
Legal ideologies......Page 258
Race and ethnicity......Page 259
Migration and trafficking......Page 260
Social order in sex work: legislative climate......Page 261
Economic performativity in sex work: marketsegmentation......Page 269
Employment stratification in sex work: from market tohierarchy......Page 271
Social community and kinship in sex work: mutualsupport......Page 275
Modelling ‘model’ relationships......Page 278
Conclusion......Page 280
Introduction......Page 282
Time and the labour process......Page 283
Time and sex work......Page 284
Clients’ time: men’s time?......Page 285
Workers’ time: making money, playing safe......Page 288
Workers’ time: slow time, identity time, political time......Page 290
Conclusion......Page 293
Conclusion......Page 298
1 Violence, masculinity and management......Page 304
3 Sexual harassment......Page 306
4 Working with sex offenders......Page 309
5 Sadomasochism and organization......Page 312
6 Re-eroticizing the organization......Page 314
7 Discourse and desire in sex work......Page 317
8 Consumption and the management of identity in sex work......Page 319
9 Context and career in sex work......Page 321
10 Material variations in sex work......Page 323
11 The temporal organization of sex work......Page 325
Bibliography......Page 328
Author index......Page 354
Subject index......Page 360