Understanding how vulnerable women engage the state through participation: Advocating for sex workers’ rights in Cape Town

dc.contributor.advisorPiper, Laurence
dc.contributor.authorMoloto, Ponatshego M.
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-05T07:24:19Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-03T09:22:20Z
dc.date.available2022-08-05T07:24:19Z
dc.date.available2024-05-03T09:22:20Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.descriptionMagister Commercii - MComen_US
dc.description.abstractIn recent years, the unequal distribution of citizens’ rights and benefits for women in the sex work industry has become a major political and social issue in South Africa. This mini-thesis argues that women in this industry are differently oppressed according to race and class. This is done through a specific case study of the Sex Workers’ Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT), a non-governmental organization based in Observatory, Cape Town. The thesis explores (i) the perceptions of sex workers on how sex work is commonly understood in gendered, racial and class terms, (ii) how this affects their lives, especially their rights as citizens, and (iii) what they do to address these challenges and to (re)claim their positions in society.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/12764
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectCitizenshipen_US
dc.subjectDemocracyen_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectLegal rightsen_US
dc.subjectSex worken_US
dc.titleUnderstanding how vulnerable women engage the state through participation: Advocating for sex workers’ rights in Cape Townen_US

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