Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 2011
ISSN
1558-4356
Publisher
Harvard Law School
Language
en-US
Abstract
This paper examines the involvement of feminists in approaches to sex work in the context of HIV/AIDS. The paper focuses on two moments where feminist disagreement produced results in favor of an "anti-trafficking" approach to addressing the vulnerability of sex workers in the context of HIV. The first is the UNAIDS Guidance Note on Sex Work and the second is the "anti-prostitution pledge" found in the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. This article also examines the anti-sex work position articulated by abolitionist feminists and demonstrates the unintended consequences of the abolitionist position on women's health. By examining the actual impact of abolitionist positions, in favor of the anti-prostitution pledge and the criminalization of clients, we see that there are negative consequences for women despite the desire by abolitionists to improve women's health.
Recommended Citation
Aziza Ahmed,
Feminism, Power, and Sex Work in the Context of HIV/AIDS: Consequences for Women's Health
,
in
34
Harvard Journal of Law & Gender
225
(2011).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/3113
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