Prostitution Research in Context

Methodology, Representation and Power
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-37511-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 298 g

Reihe: Interdisciplinary Studies in Sex for Sale

The starting point for this book is the question of how we research sex for sale and the implications of the choices we make in terms of epistemology and ethics. Which dilemmas and ethical aspects need to be taken into account when producing qualitative data within a highly politicised and moral-infected realm? These two questions are exactly what Spanger and Skilbrei aim to unpack in this unusual interdisciplinary methodology book, Prostitution Research in Context.

The book offers contributions from a number of scholars who, based on their reflections on their own research practice and the existing knowledge field, discuss ongoing methodological issues and challenges representative of international research on sex for sale. Some chapters deal explicitly with methodological dilemmas in research; others thematise the encounter between prostitution research and general texts on epistemology. Other chapters again actively engage with the ethical dilemmas that research on the topic of sex for sale can entail. The authors represent different disciplines, but share an interest in engaging in reflexive research practices informed by feminism and feminist epistemologies.

An authoritative contribution to the field, this innovative volume will appeal to international scholars and students from across the social sciences and humanities in areas such as sociology, anthropology, criminology, media studies, feminist studies, human geography and history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spanger, Marlene

Skilbrei, May-Len

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgement

- Exploring sex for sale: Methodological concerns

Marlene Spanger and May-Len Skilbrei



Theme 1 Manoeuvring in a politicised research field

- History and the politics of prostitution – Prostitution and the politics of history

Judith R. Walkowitz

- Speaking the truth about prostitution

May-Len Skilbrei

- Troubling unknowns and certainties in prostitution policy claims-making

Isabel Crowhurst



Theme 2 Researching for, about and with sex workers

- Epistemologically privileging the sex worker: Uncovering the rehearsed and presumed in sex work studies

Lorraine Nencel

- Collaborative research with sex workers

Carol Harrington

- The voice of images: Photovoice, sex workers and affective engagement

Sealing Cheng



Theme 3 Dangerous positions? Establishing the research field of sex for sale

- What do emotions do? Circulations of annoyance, hostility and shame in fieldwork

Marlene Spanger

- Contamination or engagement? Doing class in prostitution research

Jeanett Bjønness

10. Seducing the seducer: Negotiating desire, discomfort and power in fieldwork

Christian Groes

Notes on contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marlene Spanger is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark
May-Len Skilbrei is Professor in the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo, Norway