| |||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £7.55
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in Sex Work: A Risky Business for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £7.55, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
"'nobody in Britain has got closer to the everyday worlds of sex workers' Professor Dick Hobbs, University of Durham"
Product Description
This is a richly detailed account of the way the sex industry works, and one of the few empirical studies that investigates the off street industry in Britain. The book seeks to advance a greater knowledge of the social organisation of the sex industry by uncovering the day-to-day activities of women involved in the indoor markets. What types of occupational risks do women experience in work of this kind? How do these hazards affect their personal lives? A key concern throughout the book is to assess whether women are passive victims of the circumstances of prostitution or whether they understand and calculate their responses to danger. Drawing upon both sociological and criminological theories, and on detailed research in the city of Birmingham, the author addresses these questions by estimating the rationality of those responses and by providing a measure of how women make sense of different risks. Sex Work: a risky business describes how women create complex psychological and emotional techniques to maintain their sanity while selling sex, and goes on to argue that the indoor sex markets in Britain have a distinct 'occupational culture' with a set of social norms, code of conduct and moral hierarchies that make it a high regulated workplace despite its illicit and sometimes illegal nature.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
First Sentence
Sir John Wolfenden, chairman of the 1957 committee on homosexuality and prostitution commented, 'one of the difficulties we had while the Departmental Committee was sitting was to get a first-hand account of the life and attitude of the prostitute herself' (Anon 1959). Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Sir John Wolfenden, chairman of the 1957 committee on homosexuality and prostitution commented, 'one of the difficulties we had while the Departmental Committee was sitting was to get a first-hand account of the life and attitude of the prostitute herself' (Anon 1959). Read the first page
Explore More
Concordance
Browse Sample PagesConcordance
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I found this book extremely interesting and new to me.
I have always had a fairly dim view of the attitude taken by many feminist writers (or more often student campaign groups and such like) to prostitution - That is not to say I am not aware of the exploitation and damage that the sex industry can include, but had always felt that not all women engaged in sex work as a profession were forced, coerced and exploited any more than many other people in legitimate trades.
It is brilliant to see a feminist author (that at least being my opinion from being taught by Teela, it is not forced upon the reader in the book) challenging this view based on ethnographic research.
Both for this exploration of how the women see their work and manage it, and as a fascinating exploration of the sex industry in a large UK city this is good read.
My only complaint is I would have been interested in a little deeper sociology, it is very modern and contemporary in style - but then that is possibly more an area for another text.
I have always had a fairly dim view of the attitude taken by many feminist writers (or more often student campaign groups and such like) to prostitution - That is not to say I am not aware of the exploitation and damage that the sex industry can include, but had always felt that not all women engaged in sex work as a profession were forced, coerced and exploited any more than many other people in legitimate trades.
It is brilliant to see a feminist author (that at least being my opinion from being taught by Teela, it is not forced upon the reader in the book) challenging this view based on ethnographic research.
Both for this exploration of how the women see their work and manage it, and as a fascinating exploration of the sex industry in a large UK city this is good read.
My only complaint is I would have been interested in a little deeper sociology, it is very modern and contemporary in style - but then that is possibly more an area for another text.
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
- Books > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Psychology & Psychiatry > Specific Topics > Sexual Behaviour
- Books > Science & Nature > History & Philosophy > Philosophy of Science > Ethics
- Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Social Sciences > Law & Disorder > Criminology
- Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Social Sciences > Social Issues > Ethical Issues > Prostitution
- Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Social Sciences > Social Issues > Social Welfare & Services
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
