Women and Gender Studies, Arizona State University, USA.
Med Anthropol Q. 2010 Sep;24(3):344-62. doi: 10.1111/j.1548-1387.2010.01108.x.
Gender-based violence in the workplace impacts the physical and emotional wellbeing of sex workers and may lead to other health problems, such as PTSD and depression, drug abuse, and a greater likelihood of sexually transmitted infections. This study examines the social context of workplace violence and risk avoidance in the context of legal regulations meant to reduce harms associated with the industry. Ethnographic research, including 18 months of extended field observations and interviews with 190 female sex workers, is used to illustrate how sex workers in Tijuana, Mexico, experience and manage workplace violence. Multiple subthemes emerge from this analysis, including deciding where to work, working with a third party, avoiding theft, and dealing with police. These findings support the idea that the risk of violence is part of a larger "hierarchy of risk" that can result in a "tradeoff" of harms.
工作场所中的性别暴力会影响性工作者的身心健康，并可能导致其他健康问题，如创伤后应激障碍和抑郁、药物滥用以及更易感染性传播疾病。本研究考察了在旨在减少与该行业相关危害的法律法规背景下，工作场所暴力和风险规避的社会背景。这项研究采用民族志研究方法，包括 18 个月的扩展实地观察和对 190 名女性性工作者的访谈，以说明在墨西哥蒂华纳的性工作者如何经历和管理工作场所暴力。从这一分析中出现了多个子主题，包括在哪里工作、与第三方合作、避免盗窃以及与警察打交道。这些发现支持了这样一种观点，即暴力风险是更大的“风险等级”的一部分，可能导致“权衡”危害。
