Street Sex Workers' Discourse: Realizing Material Change Through Agential Choice

ISBN-13: 9780415887076 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 276 str.

Jill McCracken

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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