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UNINA9910779679903321 |
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Autore |
McCracken Jill. |
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Titolo |
Street sex workers' discourse : realizing material change through agential choice / / Jill McCracken |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-94505-5 |
0-203-38499-7 |
1-299-48091-8 |
1-135-94498-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (503 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge research in gender and society ; ; 34 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Language and culture |
Rhetoric - Social aspects |
Semantics - Social aspects |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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List of figures -- Note on the transcriptions -- Preface: telling our stories : street-based sex work -- Acknowledgments -- Quotidian rhetoric creates meaning through collage -- Who is the victim : the neighborhood or the woman? -- Is she a criminal, a victim, or a victim of the criminal justice system? -- "An opportunity to change" : responsibility and choice -- Systemic violence perpetuates victim status -- 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 -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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