Abstract
Why is there a distinct lack of debate around prostitution and the sex trade in the academy? What motivates these academics to follow a particular line? To understand that, you have to look at how class analysis, largely prevalent within sociology and anthropology as a way of understanding institutionalised power relations, has been usurped by essentialist identity politics, the rise of market doctrine within universities, and how these have joined forces with old-fashioned sexism and male libertarianism.
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Bindel, J. (2019). Sex Trade Academics. In: The Pimping of Prostitution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95947-1_9
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