Legal Constructions of Body Work

Authors

  • Ann Stewart University of Warwick

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.96

Keywords:

body work, sex work, care work, labour regulation, social reproduction

Abstract

This chapter explores the way in which two examples of body work - the labour involved in caring for the vulnerable elderly and in providing commercial sex - are regulated. It highlights the challenges that body work presents for labour law and exposes the wider conceptual limitations that this area of law faces in a consumer based market economy in which the boundaries between production and social reproduction are being reconstituted.

Author Biography

Ann Stewart, University of Warwick

Associate Professor and Reader, Law School, University of Warwick, UK.

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Published

22-02-2014

How to Cite

Stewart, A. (2014). Legal Constructions of Body Work. Feminists@law, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.96

Issue

Section

Gendering Labour Law