Racialised Sex Workers in Late Twentieth-Century Britain

这个项目将是第一次深入研究黑人妇女在二十世纪后期英国性产业的地位，揭示了这个边缘化的群体，在学术界几乎是不可见的。探索种族化，工作贫困和性工作的交叉点，我的研究将把黑人性工作者的经历与他们在战后英国黑人妇女的地位联系起来。虽然许多妇女运动谴责性工作是唯一有辱人格的，但我的工作将调查种族是如何容易地融入社会主义女权主义者对性工作作为贫困产物的解释。我的研究将探索历史上种族化性行为的刻板印象的遗产，可以追溯到帝国，并询问这是否相当于对黑人性工作者的强迫种族化。我的工作将调查亚洲血统的性工作者如何以不同的方式被种族化，以使同质的“黑人”体验的概念变得复杂。

This project will be the first in-depth examination of Black women's place in the late twentieth-century British sex industry, shedding light on this marginalised group that is near-invisible in scholarship. Exploring intersections of racialisation, working poverty and sex work, my research will link Black sex workers' experiences to their position as Black women in postwar Britain. While much of the women's movement condemned sex work as uniquely degrading, my work will investigate how race was readily integrated into socialist feminist interpretations of sex work as the product of poverty. My research will explore the legacy of historical stereotypes of racialised sexuality dating back to Empire and ask whether this amounted to a forced racialisation for Black sex workers. Complicating notions of a homogenous 'Black' experience, my work will investigate how sex workers of Asian origin were racialised in different ways to their African and Caribbean counterparts.