Let's go outside: bodies, prostitutes, slaves and worker citizens

摘要: In liberal thought, slavery is imagined as reducing the human being to nothing but a body, while free and equal political subjects of modern democracies are held be abstract, universal disembodied individuals. theory, bodies also unimportant in wage labour exchange. Though traditional models worker citizenship insist on state employers' duty protect worth citizens, they assume disembodied, thing-like nature commodified power. Because so obviously important exchange between prostitute customer, sex work difficult reconcile with fictions disembodiment, one strand feminist debate prostitution preoccupied by question whether prostitutes like slaves or labourers. Protagonists both sides this often reproduce understandings power ‘thing’ that can detached from person. And yet contested commodity, wa...