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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 -