Getting the Goods: Ports, Labor, and the Logistics Revolution
Getting the Goods: Ports, Labor, and the Logistics Revolution
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获取货物：港口、劳动力和物流革命
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2009
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W. Finlay
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根据伯恩斯坦的研究，主要是中产阶级和室内性工作者努力为他们的男性客户创造真正的性爱体验，这往往需要更多的情感劳动。伯恩斯坦认为，有趣的是，并不奇怪的是，在性接触中寻求有限真实性的不仅仅是男性。她写道，女性也越来越多地参与购买性暗示和色情小说、表演、课程、性玩具、内衣，甚至是《如何》和自助手册。对她来说，正是这种对性经济的参与和消费提供了“证据，表明对于越来越多的女性和男性来说，性目前正在被重建为一系列提供个人意义和快乐的孤立的技术，而不是表达与特定个人的持续关系”(第174-175页)。虽然伯恩斯坦的调查在推动当代卖淫研究和性工作概念化方面具有创新性和重要意义，但她所采用的性劳动和有限真实性的理论概念可能与推进非西方和非后工业城市中心的卖淫理论不太相关。尽管如此，伯恩斯坦的文本因其对商业性活动的深入分析和审查以及与市场介导性有关的社会、文化和经济意义而受到高度推荐。
According to Bernstein’s research, it is predominately middle-class and indoor sex workers who endeavor to create “authentic” experiences of genuine sexual interest for their male clients, which often require greater emotional labor. Interestingly, and unsurprisingly, it’s not just men who seek bounded authenticity in their sexual encounters, Bernstein argues. She writes that women too are increasingly involved in the purchase of sexually suggestive and erotic novels, performances, classes, sex toys, lingerie, and even “how to” and self-help manuals. For her, it is this kind of participation and consumption in the sexual economy that provides “evidence that for growing numbers of both women and men, sexuality is currently being reconstructed as a series of isolatable techniques that provide personal meaning and pleasure, as opposed to an expression of an ongoing relationship with a particular individual” (p. 174–175). While Bernstein’s inquiry is innovative and important in pushing the boundaries of contemporary research on prostitution and conceptualizations of sex work, the theoretical concepts of sexual labour and bounded authenticity that she employs are perhaps less relevant for advancing theories of prostitution in non-Western and non-post-industrial urban centers. Nevertheless, Bernstein’s text comes highly recommended for its indepth analysis and examination of commercial sexual activity and the social, cultural, and economic meanings attached to market mediated sex.