Suzanne Jenkins
BA
(Keele) 2004 LLM (Keele) 2005 PhD Candidate
Research Student. Tel: x3218 or Email
Supervisory Team: Prof. Marie Fox and Dr. Matthew Weait
Research Interests and Current Research Projects
My PhD uses the example of prostitution to address issues such as how sexual exploitation may be more multi-dimensional than is generally taken for granted. This study seeks to expand academic understandings of interpersonal power, sexual autonomy, agency and empowerment, by carrying out empirical research with both male and female sex workers. The absence of empirical research and feminist analysis of male prostitution constitutes a significant gap in the literature on commercial sex work, and theories of prostitution may benefit from taking account of the differences between prostituted women and prostituted men. This research therefore aims to address the theoretical question of whether prostitution is fundamentally exploitative, and if so, whether this exploitation is only, or even primarily, the exploitation of women by men.