On the game : women and sex work /

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Day explores how individual sex workers live, in public and in private.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Day, Sophie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2007.
Series:Anthropology, culture, and society.
Subjects:
Prostitutes > Social conditions.
Prostitution > Case studies.
Prostituées > Conditions sociales.
PSYCHOLOGY > Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP > Sexual Instruction.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Prostitutes > Social conditions
Prostitution
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Public women
  • A London clinic: anthropology and health
  • Simply work
  • What's in a name? The distribution of knowledge among colleagues
  • Playing the market against the state
  • The right to have rights
  • The uses of money
  • Infertility, pregnancy and future mothers
  • Consummate artifice: market makes all
  • Counterpublics
  • Time on the game
  • Epilogue: the lifescapes of public women.

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