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On the game : women and sex work / Sophie Day.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Day, Sophie.
- Series:
- Anthropology, culture, and society.
- Anthropology, culture, and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prostitutes--Social conditions.
- Prostitutes.
- Prostitution--Case studies.
- Prostitution.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 277 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Ann Arbor, Mich. : Pluto Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Day explores how individual sex workers live, in public and in private.
- Contents:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION: PUBLIC WOMEN
- 1 A LONDON CLINIC: ANTHROPOLOGY AND HEALTH
- 2 SIMPLY WORK
- 3 WHAT'S IN A NAME? The distribution of knowledge among colleagues
- 4 PLAYING THE MARKET AGAINST THE STATE
- 5 THE RIGHT TO HAVE RIGHTS
- 6 THE USES OF MONEY
- 7 INFERTILITY, PREGNANCY AND FUTURE MOTHERS
- 8 CONSUMMATE ARTIFICE: MARKET MAKES ALL
- 9 COUNTERPUBLICS
- 10 TIME ON THE GAME
- EPILOGUE: THE LIFESCAPES OF PUBLIC WOMEN
- REFERENCES
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781783714773
- 1783714778
- 9781849641135
- 1849641137
- OCLC:
- 656250982
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