@inbook{bc14992dc3164e0982db918faf70a683,
title = "Seaside Ports, Coastal Cities and Tropical Islands: Songs of Sex Work and Inequality by the Sea",
abstract = "This chapter considers the representation of sex work by the sea in popular song. Drawing on a travelling literature review – from British resorts and ports to New Orleans in the United States, to Trinidad and Jamaica in the Caribbean – I identify themes of gender, sexuality and race intersecting with public order concerns, military presence, postcolonialism and economic precarity. This literature provides a rich context for exploring the songs chosen for this chapter and highlights in particular the relationship of sex work with inequality. I conclude by recognising the bioethical implications of an instrumental desire for the {\textquoteleft}tender shelter{\textquoteright} of coast and body.",
keywords = "Sex work, Songs, lyrics, Gender, race, Sexuality, postcolonial, coast, Social history, Liminality, Carnivalesque, prostitution",
author = "Natasha Mulvihill",
year = "2022",
month = dec,
day = "30",
doi = "10.4324/9781003230847-8",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-032-13796-4",
series = "Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics",
publisher = "Routledge",
pages = "83--100",
editor = "Glenn Fosbraey",
booktitle = "Coastal Environments in Popular Song",
address = "United Kingdom",
edition = "1",
}