Street Sex Workers' Discourse - Jill McCracken

Street Sex Workers' Discourse

Realizing Material Change Through Agential Choice

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-95251-5 (ISBN)
47,35 inkl. MwSt
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 providing a thorough analysis of the material conditions surrounding street work and their connection to discourse. McCracken offers an explanation of how constructions can be made differently in order to achieve representations that are generated by the marginalized populations themselves, while placing responsibility for this marginalization on the society in which these people live.

Jill McCracken is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg.

1. Quotidian Rhetoric Creates Meaning Through Collage 2. Who is the Victim: The Neighborhood or the Woman? 3. Is She a Criminal, a Victim, or a Victim of the Criminal Justice System? 4. "An Opportunity to Change": Responsibility and Choice 5. Systemic Violence Perpetuates Victim Status 6. Releasing Agential Choice from Cages of Oppression. Appendix A: Participants. Appendix B: Research Process and Layers of Data. Appendix C: Number of Times Terms Included in Newspaper and Participant Interviews Corpora.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.9.2015
Reihe/Serie Routledge Research in Gender and Society
Zusatzinfo 3 Tables, black and white; 16 Halftones, black and white; 16 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 172 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-138-95251-6 / 1138952516
ISBN-13 978-1-138-95251-5 / 9781138952515
Zustand Neuware
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