Overview
- Draws upon years of ethnographic research with hostess bar workers in China and women engaged in street-based sex work in the U.S. and Canada
- Investigates the legal, social and public policy issues involved
- Examines researchers’ strategies for ethically engaging with sex workers in these criminalized environments
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Anthropology (BRIEFSANTHRO)
Part of the book sub series: Anthropology and Ethics (AAE)
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Tiantian Zheng is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at State University of New York, Cortland. Her book Red Lights is the Winner of the 2010 Sara A. Whaley Book Prize from the National Women’s Studies Association for the significant contribution to the topic of women and labor. Her book Ethnographies of Prostitution in Contemporary China is the Winner of the 2011 Research Publication Book Award from the Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States.
Treena Orchard is an Associate Professor in the School of Health Studies and an Affiliate in Women’s Studies and Feminist Research at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. An anthropologist with cultural and medical expertise, she has conducted ethnographic research with women in sex work, people with HIV/AIDS, Aboriginal populations, and those of sexual minority status across Canada and in India. Her areas of special research interest include sexuality and sex work, gender, marginalization, and the politics of health. Her research has been fund
ed by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and Western University. She is also involved in local and national activism related to the rights of women and other marginalized populations.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sex Workers and Criminalization in North America and China
Book Subtitle: Ethical and Legal Issues in Exclusionary Regimes
Authors: Susan Dewey, Tiantian Zheng, Treena Orchard
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Anthropology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25763-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-25761-7Published: 06 January 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-25763-1Published: 23 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2195-0806
Series E-ISSN: 2195-0814
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 99
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Anthropology, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Gender Studies