Street sex workers' discourse : realizing material change through agential choice / / Jill McCracken.

• Superior document: Routledge research in gender and society ; 34
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); McCracken, Jill.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge research in gender and society ; 34.
• Physical Description: xxxvi, 240 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

List of figures -- Note on the transcriptions -- Preface: telling our stories : street-based sex work -- Acknowledgments -- Quotidian rhetoric creates meaning through collage -- Who is the victim : the neighborhood or the woman? -- Is she a criminal, a victim, or a victim of the criminal justice system? -- "An opportunity to change" : responsibility and choice -- Systemic violence perpetuates victim status -- 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 -- Notes -- References -- Index.