Of Vice and Women: Shades of Prostitution

by Margaretha Jarvinen and Margaretha Järvinen

This work discusses society's attempts to define and understand sexual relations, whether in the form of public or secluded encounters. Using three general perspectives to classify earlier and more recent research, J rvinen analyzes the content and implications of these theoretical frameworks. She shows that the the systematization of controlling prostitution as a "functionalist" approach starkly demonstrates the underlying assumptions of past--and,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8200212831
• ISBN13: 9788200212836
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.8"