Body/Sex/Work focuses on the intimate, embodied and sexualised labour that occurs within body work and sex work. Bringing together an internationally renowned group of academics, it explores, empirically and theoretically, labour processes, workplace relations, regulation and resistance in some of the many work sites that make up the body work and sex work sectors. The book makes a key contribution to research recognising the embodiment of labour and the body, reframing the key questions in critical studies of work and employment.Key Benefits:- The first book that draws together the sub-disciplines of body work and sex work- Written by leading international experts- Contains cutting edge empirical research on contemporary topicsBody/Sex/Work is an ideal companion for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students of labour and organisation studies, body studies, gender, and sexuality. It will also appeal to researchers and lecturers in these fields.

PART ONE: THEORISING BODY/SEX WORK Introduction: The Body/Sex/Work Nexus; Rachel Lara Cohen, Kate Hardy, Teela Sanders, Carol Wolkowitz Touching Moments: An Analysis of the Skillful Search for Dignity within Body Work Interactions; Marek Korczynski Work Equal to Any Other, but Not the Same as Any Other: The Politics of Sexual Labour, the Body and Intercorporeality; Kate Hardy PART TWO: THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND LEGAL CONTEXT OF BODY/SEX WORK Legal Constructions of Body Work; Ann Stewart Gender, Emotional Labour and Interactive Body Work: Negotiating Flesh and Fantasy in Sex Workers' Labour Practices; Barb Brents, Crystal Jackson The Frontline Costs of the Southern Cross' Decline; Joe Greener Hairdressing/undressing: Comparing Labour Relations in Self-employed Body Work; Teela Sanders, Rachel Lara Cohen and Kate Hard PART THREE: SEXUALISING BODIES IN THE LABOUR PROCESS Altered Bodies, Engineered Careers: A Comparison of Body Technologies in Corporate and Do-It-Yourself Pornographic Productions; Lori Fazzino From Erotic Capital to Erotic Knowledge: Body, Sexuality and Gender as Symbolic Skills in Phone Sex Work; Giulia Selmi 'What Does a Manicure Have to Do With Sex?': Racialised Sexualisation of Body Labor in Routine Beauty Services; Miliann Kang Touch in Holistic Massage: Ambiguities and Boundaries; Carrie Purcell PART FOUR: DISCIPLINING AND RESISTANT BODIES Racing Bodies; Janet Miller Body work and Ageing: The Biomedicalization of Nutrition Practices; Giulia Rodeschini Getting the Bodies of the Workers to the Bodies of the Clients: the Role of the Rota in Domiciliary Care; Gemma Wibberley Saliva, Semen and Sanity: Flat-working Women in Hong Kong and Bodily Management Strategies; Olive Cheung.