1st Edition
Structural Oppression in the Everyday Lives of Sex Workers
1. Introduction: Rethinking Sex Work Through Anti-Oppressive Feminist Lenses 2. Precarious Entry: Motivations, Constraints, and the Myth of Choice
3. Structures of Violence: Dehumanization, Client Power, and Everyday Harm 4. Survival Over Dignity: Everyday Struggles Under Structural Pressure
5. Lost in Beauty Norms: Embodied Expectations and Internalized Oppression 6. Imagining Alternatives: Exit Narratives, Ambivalence, and Structural Barriers 7. Encounters With Social Work: Gaps, Needs, and Possibilities 8. Conclusion: Towards Justice-Oriented and Feminist Social Work Practice
Biography
İsmail Orbay is a Lecturer at the Evangelische Hochschule Berlin, Germany, and Doctoral Research Assistant in the Department of Social Work at Hacettepe University, Turkey. He has previously worked as a social worker at the Violence Prevention and Monitoring Center in Türkiye.
