“This Area Has Been Declared a Prostitution Free Zone”: Discursive Formations of Space, the State, and Trans “Sex Worker” Bodies

作者: Elijah Adiv Edelman

DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2011.581928

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摘要: The mayorally instituted and police-enforced Prostitution Free Zones in Washington, DC, serve as a tool of nation-state disciplinarity, wherein many transgender women color, viewed ideologically suspect, are profiled "sex workers," facing police harassment arrest. This article explores here how this process is not merely about sex work but rather discourses that evoked the displacement always-already displaced-racial, sexed, gendered "others" through interviews with activists trans community members, well District Columbia government publications.

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