Politics of Sexual Labour in Greece

Athena Michalakea is a scholar in socio-legal studies and radical criminology. She holds a PhD in Law from Birkbeck, University of London, and studied law and social and political theory at the University of Athens, Greece. Her research explores the intersections of state power, philanthrocapitalism, and dominant feminisms in the governance of sexual labour. With a background that spans academic research, institutional work, and activist engagement, she brings a multidimensional perspective to questions of law, gender, and labour. She is a member of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control and the European Sex Work Research Network. Athena is currently Law and Criminology Tutor at Teesside University International Study Centre, UK.

• 1 Introduction: Sex work exceptionalism, regulationism, and the rescue industry.- 2 ‘Liaisons Dangereuses: greek feminist movements, the state and working class women.- 3 From the margins of law to the margins of the city; a legal geographical analysis of sex work regulationism in Greece.- 4 Punishing the deviants; health, morality, and penal-welfarism.- 5 Crossing borders: Trafficking, migration and exploitation.- 6 Sex work as work, sex work against work. Playing with the Law.