Prostitution and Feminism (eBook)

Maggie O'Neill is a Reader in Sociology and Women's Studies at Staffordshire University

Acknowledgements.

Introduction: Socio-cultural Contexts-Renewed Methodologies for
Social Research.

Part I Feminist Knowledge and Social Research: Understanding
Prostitution.

1 Feminism(s) and Prostitution.

2 Feminist Knowledge and Social Research: Ethno-mimesis as
Perfomative Praxis.

Part II Interpretive Ethnographies: Life History Work.

3 Women's Voices, Women's Lives.

4 Adolescent Prostitution: Runaways, Homelessness and Living in
Local Authority Care.

III Feminist Postmodernisms and Ethnographies of Difference:
between Modernity and Postmodernity.

5 Imagining Women: Prostitution, the Aestheticization of the
Whore and the Social Organization of Desire.

6 The City, Masculinity and the Social Organization of Desire:
Pimps and Punters.

7 Conclusion: Towards a Politics of Feeling.

Notes.

References.

Index.

'Prostitution and Feminism is a great examples of
feminist research, developing new theoretical concepts and
methodological approaches for a feminism that can entwine critical
conceptual explorations with an ethnographic approach that brings
life to the broader analysis. A wide-ranging, readable and
authoritative book.' - Vikki Bell, Goldsmiths
College, University of London

'By working across traditional disciplinary divides,
O'Neill provides a stimulating and fresh approach to feminist
work in the area of prostitution, at the same time making timely
demands on the reader to think more deeply about the nature and
purpose of feminist theory and research.' - Jenny
Ryan, Manchester Metropolitan University