TY - JOUR

T1 - Writing Sex Work Online

T2 - The Case of Belle de Jour

AU - Ferreday, Debra

PY - 2010

Y1 - 2010

N2 - This paper investigates the media representation of sex work. Taking the case of the blogger Belle de Jour as a starting point, it considers sex blogging in the context of wider debates within feminist theory and cultural studies to consider under what circumstances experience becomes re-presented as authentic or otherwise in popular narratives of sex work. It engages with the layers of mystery and demystification, stigma and resistance that surround online narratives of sexual labour and to challenge the notion that accounts of sex work, need to be universally ‘representative’ in order to be heard.

AB - This paper investigates the media representation of sex work. Taking the case of the blogger Belle de Jour as a starting point, it considers sex blogging in the context of wider debates within feminist theory and cultural studies to consider under what circumstances experience becomes re-presented as authentic or otherwise in popular narratives of sex work. It engages with the layers of mystery and demystification, stigma and resistance that surround online narratives of sexual labour and to challenge the notion that accounts of sex work, need to be universally ‘representative’ in order to be heard.

KW - sex work

KW - internet

KW - Blogging

KW - digital culture

KW - embodiment

KW - Celebrity

M3 - Journal article

VL - 8

SP - 273

EP - 292

JO - Wagadu : a Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender Studies

JF - Wagadu : a Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender Studies

SN - 2150-2226

ER -