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Prostitution and feminism : towards a politics of feeling / Maggie O'Neill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Neill, Maggie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prostitution.
- Prostitutes.
- Feminism.
- Physical Description:
- 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Oxford ; Malden, MA : In association with Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-216) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0745612040
- 0745619215
- OCLC:
- 44066999
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