Special issue problematizing prostitution: critical research and scholarship

The scholars who contribute to this issue utilize diverse research methods to examine the lived experiences of people engaged in prostitution and the people and institutions that process them. They look at the production of knowledge about prostitution and trafficking by institutional stakeholders,...

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Other Authors Hail-Jares, Katie, Leon, Chrysanthi S., Shdaimah, Corey S., Sarat, Austin
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2016.
SeriesStudies in law, politics, and society ; 71.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781786350398
ISSN1059-4337 ;
DOI10.1108/S1059-4337201671
Physical Description1 online resource (x, 156 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • Sex worker or student? Legitimation and master status in academia / Jenny Heineman
  • "In my head, I didn't feel like I had done anything wrong": women's experiences prostituting women and girls / Mahri Irvine
  • Relationships among stigmatized women engaged in street-level prostitution: coping with stigma and stigma management / Corey Shdaimah, Chrysanthi S. Leon
  • Reform or remand? race, nativity, and the immigrant family in the history of prostitution / Anne E. Bowler, Terry G. Lilley, Chrysanthi S. Leon
  • Inevitably violent? Dynamics of space, governance and stigma in understanding violence against sex workers / Teela Sanders
  • Bad dates: how prostitution strolls impact client-initiated violence / Katie Hail-Jares
  • Unionizing sex workers: the Karnataka experience / Subadra Panchanadeswaran, Gowri Vijayakumar, Shubha Chacko, Andy Bhanot.