ISBN:
9780415887076
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (503 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Gender and Society
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Gender and Society Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Street Sex Workers' Discourse: Realizing Material Change Through Agential Choice
DDC:
306.74
Keywords:
Rhetoric - Social aspects
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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, reproduced, and entrenched in the language surrounding their work. As an ethnographic case study of a local system that can be extrapolated to other subcultures and the construction of identities, this book disrupts some of the more prevalent academic and lay understandings about street prostitution by providi
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Note on the Transcriptions; Preface: Telling Our Stories about Street-Based Sex Work; An Ethnography of Street-Based Sex Work; The Sex Industry; The Material Conditions of Street-Based Sex Work in Nemez; Criminalization and Arrests; Neighborhood Residents; Drug Use and Sexually Transmitted Infections; Violence; Making Meaning Through Collage; Trajectory of the Text; Acknowledgments; 1. Quotidian Rhetoric Creates Meaning through Collage; Do "Prostitute" Bodies Matter?; Responsible Rhetorical Agency
Description / Table of Contents:
2. Who is the Victim: The Neighborhood or the Woman?Prostitution is not a "Victimless Crime"; Victimized Neighborhoods: Drugs, Violence, Crime, and Disease; "Broken Window Theory" Versus "Pushing them Deeper into the Shadows"; Implications: Us Versus them; Consider a Birdcage; Surviving Poverty; Coping with Trauma, Abuse, and Neglect; "I Wanted to Hide My Feelings"; "We Had to Get High"; "You have to do the drugs to be able to do the prostitution"; Choosing Not To; 3. Is She a Criminal, a Victim, or a Victim of the Criminal Justice System?; Criminal Status and Arrests
Description / Table of Contents:
Wrong, "Not Wrong," or Somewhere in betweenProstitution is Morally Wrong; Not Wrong, but not "Right"; Prostitution is "Not Wrong"; Prostitution Should Not Be Illegal; Is Criminalization the Solution or the Problem?; "A Door to the Outside"-Criminalization and Access to Services; Is She a Criminal or a Victim?; A Solution that Isn't One?; Alternatives to Arrests; 4. "An Opportunity to Change": Responsibility and Choice; "You're the Only One Who Can Change It."; "But its all what they want."; Moving from a Victim to Taking Responsibility; "Sometimes that's just too hard to do."
Description / Table of Contents:
"Can't see the big picture."Solution: Personal Responsibility to and for "Change"; Agency and Representation; Who Gets to Speak?; 5. Systemic Violence Perpetuates Victim Status; A Victim; An Agent; Street-Based Sex Work; "Living on the Edge": Violence, Safety, and Health; "They Know what they Are": Stigma's Role in Perpetuating the Victim; Systemic Issues: Impediments to "Change"; Systemic Violence and responsibility; Wires of Oppression; 6. Creating Agential Choice from Cages of Oppression; Replacing "Victim" Status with Agential Choice; Agency and Decriminalization
Description / Table of Contents:
Agential Choice Means Change is not NecessaryAgential Choice and Choosing Sex Work; Practical Applications: Opportunities for Agential Choice; Rethinking "Victim" Status; "I think these women are amazing."; "Addressing the underlying issues."; Agential Choice is a Process.; Conclusion: Systemic Opportunities for Street-Based Sex Work and Society; Alternative Ways of Speaking and Thinking about the Exchange of Sex for Money or Drugs-Systemic Violence and Injustice; Appendix A: Participants; Participants; Public Figures; Appendix B: Research Process and Layers of Data
Description / Table of Contents:
Research Design and Process
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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