Ethnography and prostitution in Peru / Lorraine Nencel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nencel, Lorraine.

Series:

Anthropology, culture, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prostitution--Peru.

Prostitution.

Women--Peru--Social conditions.

Women.

Social conditions.

Peru.

Physical Description:

ix, 251 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2001.

Summary:

A lively hard-hitting feminist study of prostitution, this book interrogates the ways in which sexuality, gender and illicit behavior have been constructed ( and deconstructed ) over the years. Lorraine Nencel looks specifically at prostitution in the third world.This is a richly detailed ethnographic account that interweaves narrative with theory. The author deals with such issues as AIDS, machismo and the regulation of the sex trade. She analyzes the question of whether sex workers are victims or agents of control. In challenging conventional approaches to the study of sex workers and prostitution, Nencel has produced an original and provocative new study that is likely to provoke further discussion and debate.

Contents:

Zooming in on the locality

(En)gendered enclosures

A historical narrative of prostitution

Read all about it : gender meanings and the written press

Prostitution and the construction of men's sexual selves

Day and night

Writing up the rhythm of fieldwork

Shaping identities in first encounters

Between the stove and the kitchen table

The fusion of truths and illusions : the nightlife and street prostitution

Between the four walls : embodying and enacting the prostitute

Gendered enclosures and gender identities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index.

ISBN:

074531662X

0745316611

OCLC:

43936648