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Street sex workers' discourse : realizing material change through agential choice /

Incorporating the voices and insights of street sex workers through personal interviews, this monograph argues that the material conditions of many street workers - the physical environments they live in and their effects on the workers' bodies, identities, and spirits - are represented, reprod...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McCracken, Jill
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2013.
Edición:1st edition.
Colección:Routledge research in gender and society ; 34.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of figures
  • Note on the transcriptions
  • Preface: telling our stories : street-based sex work
  • Acknowledgments
  • Quotidian rhetoric creates meaning through collage
  • Who is the victim : the neighborhood or the woman?
  • Is she a criminal, a victim, or a victim of the criminal justice system?
  • "An opportunity to change" : responsibility and choice
  • Systemic violence perpetuates victim status
  • Releasing agential choice from cages of oppression
  • Appendix A: Participants
  • Appendix B: Research process and layers of data
  • Appendix C: Number of times terms included in newspaper and participant interviews corpora
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.