Sex Work On The Streets

Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-0-335-23226-0
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch

- How and why do people sell and buy sex? - What are the risks associated with prostitution? - Should prostitution be legalized?This book is the most detailed study ever provided on street prostitution. It is based on three years' research in which the authors interviewed prostitutes and their clients and spent many months working in a red light area. The book makes extensive use of direct quotes from the women and the men, as well as fieldnotes from the authors based upon their observations in the red light area.Topics covered in the book include the women's negotiations with clients, HIV, drug use and violence. The book also describes the impact of working as a prostitute on women's home life. No attempt is made to moralise about prostitution in the book, instead the authors concentrate on the experiences of the women and men involved in selling and buying sex, and describe prostitution from their standpoint.Sex Work on the Streets will be of interest to a wide range of students and researchers in sociology, social policy, criminology and women's studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mckeganey, Neil

Barnard, Marina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Prostitution und Sexindustrie: Soziale & Ethische Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Priscilla Alexander
Acknowledgements
List of Tables
Introduction
Researching prostitutes and their clients
Selling sex
the views of the women
The impact of drug use on the women's work
Buying sex
the views of the clients
Prostitution and HIV
Dying for sex
prostitution and violence
Women as lovers, women as prostitutes
the management of identity
Conclusion
References
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Neil McKeganey is Reader and Director of the Centre for Drug Misuse Research at Glasgow University. He has carried out research on drug misuse, prostitution and HIV for the last ten years. He has published numerous articles on these topics and is the author, with Marina Barnard, of AIDS, Drugs and Sexual Risk Lives in the Balance Open University Press, 1992.

Marina Barnard is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Drug Misuse Research at the University of Glasgow. She has carried out research on drug use, prostitution and HIV for the last seven years, and has published widely in each of these fields. She is now carrying out research on young people's routes into drug misuse in Scotland.