Street sex workers' discourse : realizing material change through agential choice / / Jill McCracken

• Autore: McCracken Jill
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (503 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.74
• Soggetto topico: Language and culture; Rhetoric - Social aspects; Semantics - Social aspects; Street sex work; Sex workers
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Street sex workers' discourse
• ISBN: 1-135-94505-5; 0-203-38499-7; 1-299-48091-8; 1-135-94498-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910972827103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge research in gender and society ; ; 34.