An article in Turkiye Klinikleri J Med Sci 2011;31(5):1167-78.
Objective: We conducted a descriptive study to determine various forms of violence and their impacts on registered female sex workers in Turkey.
Based on ethnographic study conducted in Istanbul, this thesis investigates the effects of law and legal operations on transgender women’s sex work and daily lives, and seeks to disentangle the multidimensional ways through which they and their conduct are governmentalized by law in Turkey. The first part of the thesis discusses the legal dynamics surrounding transgender sex work and delineates how transgender women are expulsed from regulated sex work by the interaction of the socially produced desire around their bodies and law.
