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Prostitution and feminism : towards a politics of feeling

Title: Prostitution and feminism : towards a politics of feeling / Maggie O'Neill.
Author: O'Neill, Maggie.
Publication: Cambridge, UK : Polity ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

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228 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Maggie O'Neill seeks to explore the theoretical debates on prostitution and the relevance of these to the every-day lived experiences of women working on the streets. She sheds light on the various socio-economic processes and structures which lead women into prostitution.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-216) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Socio-Cultural Contexts -- Renewed Methodologies for Social Research -- pt. I. Feminist Knowledge and Social Research: Understanding Prostitution. 1. Feminism(s) and Prostitution. 2. Feminist Knowledge and Social Research: Ethno-Mimesis as Performative Praxis -- pt. II. Interpretive Ethnographies: Life-History Work. 3. Women's Voices, Women's Lives. 4. Adolescent Prostitution: Runaways, Homelessness and Living in Local Authority Care -- pt. III. Feminist Postmodernisms and Ethnographies of Difference: Between Modernity and Postmodernity. 5. Imagining Women: Prostitution, the Aestheticization of the Whore and the Social Organization of Desire. 6. The City, Masculinity and the Social Organization of Desire: Pimps and Punters. Conclusion: Towards a Politics of Feeling.

ISBN

0745612040
9780745612041
0745619215
9780745619217
9780745668109
0745668100

LCCN

00034704

OCLC

ocm44066999
44066999
SCSB-14692349

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Princeton University Library