Bad Girls Like Good Contracts: Ontario Erotic Dancers' Collective Resistance

Bouclin, Suzanne

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Bad Girls Like Good Contracts: Ontario Erotic Dancers' Collective Resistance

Suzanne Bouclin

University of Ottawa - Faculty of Law (Common Law)

August 15, 2007

VICTIM NO MORE: WOMEN`S RESISTANCE TO LAW, CULTURE AND POWER, pp. 46-60, Ellen Faulkner & Gayle Macdonald, eds., Fernwood, 2009

Abstract:
Beginning with the analysis of how neo-liberal policies pushed women out of low paying jobs into the sex trades, the author provides a micro-level look of how erotic dancers in Ontario have organized to effect changes in their labour practices.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 31

Keywords: intersectionality, legal subjectivity, unionization, marginal workers, sexuality

JEL Classification: D6, M54, A14,I3, J3

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Date posted: September 18, 2011

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Bouclin, Suzanne, Bad Girls Like Good Contracts: Ontario Erotic Dancers' Collective Resistance (August 15, 2007). VICTIM NO MORE: WOMEN`S RESISTANCE TO LAW, CULTURE AND POWER, pp. 46-60, Ellen Faulkner & Gayle Macdonald, eds., Fernwood, 2009 . Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1928765

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Suzanne Bouclin (Contact Author)

University of Ottawa - Faculty of Law (Common Law) ( email )

57 Louis Pasteur Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5
Canada