Synopsis
How and why do people sell and buy sex? what are the risks associated with prostitution? should prostitution be legalized? This book is the most detailed description ever provided of street prostitution. It is based on three years' research in which the authors interviewed prostitutes and their clients and spent many months working in a red light area. The book makes extensive use of direct quotes from the women and the men, as well as fieldnotes from the authors based upon their observations in the red light areas. Topics covered in the book include the women's negotiations with clients, HIV, drug use and violence. The book also describes the impact of working as a prostitute on women's home life. No attempt is made to moralise about prostitution in the book, instead the authors concentrate on the experiences of the women and men involved in selling and buying sex, and describes prostitution from their standpoint.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
* How and why do people sell and buy sex?
* What are the risks associated with prostitution?
* Should prostitution be legalized?
This book is the most detailed study ever provided on street prostitution. It is based on three years' research in which the authors interviewed prostitutes and their clients and spent many months working in a red light area. The book makes extensive use of direct quotes from the women and the men, as well as fieldnotes from the authors based upon their observations in the red light area.
Topics covered in the book include the women's negotiations with clients, HIV, drug use and violence. The book also describes the impact of working as a prostitute on women's home life. No attempt is made to moralise about prostitution in the book, instead the authors concentrate on the experiences of the women and men involved in selling and buying sex, and describe prostitution from their standpoint.
Sex Work on the Streets will be of interest to a wide range of students and researchers in sociology, social policy, criminology and women's studies.
Biographie de l'auteur
Neil McKeganey is Reader and Director of the Centre for Drug Misuse Research at Glasgow University. He has carried out research on drug misuse, prostitution and HIV for the last ten years. He has published numerous articles on these topics and is the author, with Marina Barnard, of AIDS, Drugs and Sexual Risk Lives in the Balance Open University Press, 1992.
Marina Barnard is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Drug Misuse Research at the University of Glasgow. She has carried out research on drug use, prostitution and HIV for the last seven years, and has published widely in each of these fields. She is now carrying out research on young people's routes into drug misuse in Scotland.
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