Racialised Sex Workers in Late Twentieth-Century Britain

这个项目将是对黑人女性在二十世纪末英国性产业中的地位的第一次深入研究，揭示了这个在学术上几乎看不见的边缘群体。探索种族主义、职业贫困和性工作的交叉，我的研究将把黑人性工作者的经历与她们在战后英国作为黑人女性的地位联系起来。虽然许多妇女运动谴责性工作是唯一有辱人格的工作，但我的工作将调查种族如何轻易融入社会主义女权主义对性工作的解释，认为它是贫穷的产物。我的研究将探索可追溯到帝国时期的种族主义性行为的历史刻板印象的遗产，并询问这是否等同于对黑人性工作者的强制种族主义。让同质化的“黑人”体验变得复杂的概念，我的工作将调查亚洲血统的性工作者是如何以不同于非洲和加勒比同行的方式被种族主义的。

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.