{"id":12644,"date":"2018-05-17T14:57:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T18:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/?p=12644"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:45:00","slug":"new-publication-by-dr-megan-rivers-moore-in-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/2018\/new-publication-by-dr-megan-rivers-moore-in-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"New Publication by Dr. Megan Rivers-Moore in Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        New Publication by Dr. Megan Rivers-Moore in Signs\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Congratulations to our very own <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/people\/megan-rivers-moore\/\">Dr. Megan Rivers-Moore<\/a> <\/strong>on this insightful and impressive contribution to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/toc\/signs\/current\"><strong>Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society<\/strong><\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/doi\/abs\/10.1086\/696626\"><strong>&#8220;We Fight with God\u2019s Weapons: Sex Work and Pragmatic Penance in Neoliberal Costa Rica&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/na101\/home\/literatum\/publisher\/uchicago\/journals\/content\/signs\/2018\/signs.2018.43.issue-4\/signs.2018.43.issue-4\/20180511\/signs.2018.43.issue-4.cover.gif\" alt=\"Publication Cover\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"62b07870-01b0-4382-b4f1-e667a85400da\" class=\"widget layout-one-column none journal-meta widget-none widget-compact-all\">\n<div class=\"wrapped \">\n<div class=\"widget-body body body-none body-compact-all\">\n<div class=\"pb-columns row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"width_1_1\">\n<div data-pb-dropzone=\"center\">\n<div id=\"78ef3ce6-6500-4c72-9df3-bab1f4ab30fe\" class=\"widget general-html-asset none widget-none widget-compact-all\">\n<div class=\"wrapped \">\n<div class=\"widget-body body body-none body-compact-all\">\n<h2><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-pb-dropzone=\"center\">\n<div id=\"78ef3ce6-6500-4c72-9df3-bab1f4ab30fe\" class=\"widget general-html-asset none widget-none widget-compact-all\">\n<div class=\"wrapped \">\n<div class=\"widget-body body body-none body-compact-all\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Volume 43, Number 4 | Summer 2018 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"widget-header header-regular toc-heading\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on ethnographic research in San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica, this article analyzes the relationships that sex workers have with an evangelical Christian nongovernmental organization (NGO) aimed at helping them exit the sex industry. Sex workers participate in a form of emotional labor that I call \u201cpragmatic penance,\u201d the strategic performance of victimhood in exchange for support from the NGO. I argue that both how sex workers are helped and how sex workers take advantage of the help being offered have been shaped by the broader structural context of neoliberalism, which favors paying attention to individual problems rather than systemic issues. The aim of this article is to contribute to the literature on the dynamics at play in a particular location in the global South, where these international policy trends are empirically enacted. While much has been written about sex workers and their clients, this article breaks new ground by offering an empirical rendering of the relationship between sex workers and the evangelicals who help them in a context when labor politics are on the decline in favor of entrepreneurial self-improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to our very own Dr. Megan Rivers-Moore on this insightful and impressive contribution to Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society! &#8220;We Fight with God\u2019s Weapons: Sex Work and Pragmatic Penance in Neoliberal Costa Rica&#8221; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Volume 43, Number 4 | Summer 2018 &nbsp; Abstract: Based on ethnographic research in San [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12652,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644\/revisions\/12652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}