Street Sex Workers' Discourse: Realizing Material Change Through Agential Choice

by Jill McCracken

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415887070
• ISBN13: 9780415887076
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"