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Ethnography and prostitution in Peru /

"A feminist study of prostitution in Peru, this book interrogates the ways in which sexuality, gender and illicit behaviour have been constructed (and deconstructed) over the years. Lorraine Nencel deals with issues such as AIDS, machismo and the regulation of the sex trade. She analyses the qu...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Nencel, Lorraine (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2001.
Collection:Anthropology, culture, and society.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: zooming in on the locality
  • pt. 1. (En)gendered enclosures
  • Historical narrative of prostitution
  • Read all about it : gender meanings and the written press
  • Prostitution and the construction of men's sexual selves
  • pt. 2. Day and night
  • Writing up the rhythm of fieldwork: an introduction to part II
  • Shaping identities in first encounters
  • Between the stove and the kitchen table
  • Fusion of truths into illusions : the night life and street prostitution
  • Between the four walls : embodying and enacting the prostitute
  • Gendered enclosures and gender identities.