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Bone A, Mc Grath-Lone L, Day S, 2014, BMJ Open 2014; 4:e004567., BMJ OPEN, Vol: 4, ISSN: 2044-6055
Visser J, Randers-Pehrson A, Day S, et al., 2014, Policies towards the sex industry in europe: New models of control, Sex Work, Mobility & Health, Pages: 241-257, ISBN: 9780710309426
Jan Visser, with Arne Randers-Pehrson, Sophie Day, Helen Ward Introduction: It is not easy to acquire reliable information on the nature and scope of the sex industries in the European Union, nor how they change over time. It is equally difficult to agree a common vocabulary and set of concepts to describe this picture. Should we be asking, “how many women, men and children are selling sexual services” or should we formulate this question in other terms: “how many are sold into prostitution?" Some ask, “what kinds of clients buy these services?", whereas others inquire instead, “how many men abuse these victims of sexual exploitation, and what kind of men are they?".
Day S, Ward H, 2014, Approaching health through the prism of stigma: Research in seven european countries, Sex Work, Mobility & Health, Pages: 139-159, ISBN: 9780710309426
Sophie Day and Helen Ward for the health research group in Europap 1 Introduction: The ‘prostitute’s’ body is inscribed as a site of disease and a source of contagion; these webs of signification affect the research and interventions designed as well as the interpretation of results. Yet, stereotypes about sex work also change and we describe shifts in the imagery since the 1980s, when an AIDS panic was projected on to sex workers who, it was feared, would infect everyone else. This fear was soon dispelled through a lack of corroborative evidence.
Ward H, Day S, 2014, Introduction: Containing women: Competing moralities in prostitution, ISBN: 9780710309426
Prostitution is a significant part of the European landscape: the sex industry is a major employer today, attracting millions of customers. Images of ‘the prostitute’ shape the gender identity of men and women alike in both negative and positive ways: women may have to avoid red lipstick, longing for red shoes, for fear of being branded a whore; men may have to translate their emotions into hard cash through which they seduce. Men who sell sex themselves are often defined by their bodies, their looks, and they are labelled ‘different’. Prostitution promotes a flurry of anxiety about boundaries, around gender, the family, the nation state, Fortress Europe… Since the times of the so-called White Slave Trade, states have implemented policies for controlling prostitution by containing women at home and unpaid as Wives and Mothers who are not allowed an existence independently of men, and containing women as prostitutes in separate zones, brothels or prisons. During the second half of the 20 th century, women in Europe broke many of these constraints, making use of economic and social opportunities to join the workforce, live and travel independently. Prostitution appeared less central to the definition of women. Yet, contemporary alarm at the massive influx of women into Europe, called Trafficking, has once more prompted new, often contradictory, policies from states seeking both to defend the nation and restrict the space of prostitution as far as possible. As in the 19 th century, prostitution is still the Enlightenment in nightmare form - a caricature of universalism, a network of global intercourse, of interchangeable private female parts loosed from the domestic into the public sphere, transforming the particular (my wife, your daughter) into a public woman accessible to all men.
Day S, Ward H, 2014, Approaching health through the prism of stigma: A longer term perspective, Sex Work, Mobility & Health, Pages: 161-178, ISBN: 9780710309426
Stigma in sex work tends to be so taken for granted that it becomes either mere platitude or monolithic cause, making change unnecessary or impossible. Perhaps because it is so difficult even to conceive of sex work independently of stigma, and because the interactions between stigma and health are so complex, it seems critical to disentangle the various effects at both a conceptual and empirical level. In this chapter, we argue that problems noted in the literature can, in fact, be turned to advantage.
Day S, Lury C, Wakeford N, 2014, Number ecologies: Numbers and numbering practices, Distinktion, Vol: 15, Pages: 123-154
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Bone A, Mc Grath-Lone L, Day S, et al., 2014, Inequalities in the care experiences of patients with cancer: analysis of data from the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey 2011-2012, BMJ OPEN, Vol: 4, ISSN: 2044-6055
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Ward H, Day S, 2013, MEDICAL SECRETARIES Medical secretaries have a key role in helping patients navigate the NHS, BMJ-BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, Vol: 346, ISSN: 1756-1833
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Day S, 2013, Wolfenden 50: Revisiting state policy and the politics of sex work in the UK, Demanding Sex: Critical Reflections on the Regulation of Prostitution, Pages: 51-66, ISBN: 9780754671503
Salam A, Stewart F, Singh K, et al., 2013, INterpreting the Processes of the UMPIRE Trial (INPUT): protocol for a qualitative process evaluation study of a fixed-dose combination (FDC) strategy to improve adherence to cardiovascular medications, BMJ OPEN, Vol: 3, ISSN: 2044-6055
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Day S, Leizaola R, 2012, Picturing Ladakhi Nomads over the span of a generation, Visual Anthropology Review, Vol: 28, Pages: 133-151, ISSN: 1058-7187
Sharing photographs and stories with a pastoral group in Jammu and Kashmir State, India, we consider questions about repatriation. Images from the early 1980s were shared from 2009 to 2010, by which point many of the pastoralists had moved to the main town, Leh, in the province of Ladakh where they work primarily as laborers. The literature on repatriation of images and objects focuses largely on historical collections and their political implications, but this article explores the process of working within living memory. We suggest that visual and textual narratives are so closely interwoven that they should be given equal weight and approached as a single entity. © 2012 by the American Anthropological Association.
Day S, 2012, Demographies in Flux, The SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology, Pages: 341-352, ISBN: 9781847875471
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Day S, 2010, The re-emergence of 'trafficking': sex work between slavery and freedom, JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, Vol: 16, Pages: 816-834, ISSN: 1359-0987
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Day S, Goddard V, 2010, New beginnings between public and private: Arendt and ethnographies of activism, Cultural Dynamics, Vol: 22, Pages: 137-154, ISSN: 0921-3740
We explore Arendt's idiom of 'new beginnings' which, for her, constitute the very heart of the political in the light of two case studies. Drawing on examples of political action in the human rights organization of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and among sex workers in London, this article engages with the complex and productive interface of what Arendt calls praxis and poiesis. We suggest that it is precisely through this interface that these women activists have articulated 'a new beginning'. Their actions call into question the distinctions that Arendt also makes between private and public insofar as these are given beforehand or assumed independently of such action. They also, we hope, contribute to a broader consideration of activism and ethnography. © The Author(s) 2010.
Roche B, 2010, On the Game., AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Vol: 37, Pages: 399-401, ISSN: 0094-0496
Day S, 2010, Ethics Between Public and Private: Sex Workers' Relationships in London, ORDINARY ETHICS: ANTHROPOLOGY, LANGUAGE, AND ACTION, Editors: Lambek, Publisher: FORDHAM UNIV PRESS, Pages: 292-309, ISBN: 978-0-8232-3317-5
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Day S, 2009, Renewing the War on prostitution: The spectres of 'trafficking' and 'slavery', Anthropology Today, Vol: 25, Pages: 1-3, ISSN: 0268-540X
The 1990s saw government initiatives restricting immigration in many countries, and a good deal of popular unease. Associated policies have targeted sex workers, as with the Policing and Crime Bill that is currently in its Third Reading in the House of Commons (UK). In the name of 'victims' of a trade organised by 'evil' traffickers, this Bill seeks further sanctions against all of those involved. This editorial asks whether initiatives during the current recession might not seem to succeed but for the wrong reasons. Immigrants are already leaving the UK in search of a living while local workers, who were promised safer working conditions in the wake of the murder of five women in Ipswich (2006), will be punished more and more. With its apparently humanitarian efforts to 'stop the traffic', the UK government will turn out to have replaced our 'slaves' from abroad with home-grown substitutes, and effectively solidified and further excluded an underclass. This situation suggests striking parallels with the panic over white slavery during the last comparable period of globalisation culminating in the First World War. © RAI 2009.
Gall G, 2009, On the Game - Women and Sex Work, BRITISH JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Vol: 47, Pages: 452-454, ISSN: 0007-1080
Hart K, 2009, On the game: women and sex work, JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, Vol: 15, Pages: 423-U36, ISSN: 1359-0987
FÖLDHAZI À, 2009, On the game. Women and sex work by Day, Sophie, Social Anthropology, Vol: 17, Pages: 244-245, ISSN: 0964-0282
Sariola S, 2009, On the Game: Women and Sex Work, CRITIQUE OF ANTHROPOLOGY, Vol: 29, Pages: 128-129, ISSN: 0308-275X
Day S, 2008, Wolfenden 50: Revisiting state policy and the politics of sex work in the UK, Demanding Sex: Critical Reflections on the Regulation of Prostitution, Pages: 51-66, ISBN: 9780754671503
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Day S, 2008, Threading Time in the Biographies of London Sex Workers, Ghosts of Memory: Essays on Remembrance and Relatedness, Pages: 172-193, ISBN: 9781405154222
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Katsulis Y, 2008, On the Game: Women and Sex Work, MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY QUARTERLY, Vol: 22, Pages: 297-299, ISSN: 0745-5194
Day S, 2008, VISIONS OF LADAKH: NICOLA GRIST, 19 APRIL 1957-26 AUGUST 2004, MODERN LADAKH: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CONTINUITY AND CHANGE, Vol: 20, Pages: 29-40, ISSN: 1568-6183
Cooper K, Day S, Green A, et al., 2007, Maids, Migrants and Occupational Health in the London Sex Industry., Anthropol Med, Vol: 14, Pages: 41-53, ISSN: 1364-8470
It has been argued that norms of occupational health have weakened with diversification in the sex industry. We explore this issue in walk-in flats in London, focusing on relationships between managers (maids) and sex workers. Today, most maids are local and most sex workers are 'migrants'. We collected data on 117 maids and sex workers, and carried out intensive fieldwork with seven maids and 17 sex workers. Managers take prime responsibility for educating and inducting new workers. Authoritarian management has been considered bad for health both in these walk-in flats and in the '100 per cent condom use programme' criticized by sex workers' projects. Yet, we found that maids acted as friends and managers, which helped settle new sex workers. Over time, however, migrants were more affected by issues of isolation and exploitation than local workers. Alternative models of health promotion such as peer education must be seen in a wider legal context where the lack of rights makes it difficult to appeal against exploitation, or to become mobile.
Day SE, Ward H, 2007, British policy makes sex workers vulnerable, BMJ-BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL, Vol: 334, Pages: 187-187, ISSN: 1756-1833
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Ward H, Day S, 2006, What happens to women who sell sex? Report of a unique occupational cohort, SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS, Vol: 82, Pages: 413-417, ISSN: 1368-4973
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Fox J, Taylor GP, Day S, et al., 2006, How safe is safer sex? High levels of HSV-1 and HSV-2 in female sex workers in London., Epidemiol Infect
Day S, 2005, Sex in development - Science, sexuality and morality in a global perspective, TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, Pages: 31-31, ISSN: 0307-661X
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