Prostitution, Power and Freedom - Couverture souple

Davidson, Julia O’Connell

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0472066951 ISBN 13 : 9780472066957

Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 1998

Synopsis

Prostitution, Power and Freedom brings new insights to the ongoing debate among scholars, activists, and others on the controversial subject of prostitution. Sociologist Julia O'Connell Davidson's concise, accessibly-written study is based on wide research from various corners of the world. The study employs a range of theoretical analyses and argues against simplistic explanations of the prostitution phenomenon, showing it to be a complex relationship where economics, power relations, gender, age, class, and "choice" intersect. The author has conducted an impressive amount of research in nine countries, including conversations with male and female sex tourists, adult and child prostitutes, procurers, and clients. Through her research, O'Connell Davidson demonstrates the complexity of prostitution, arguing that it is not simply an effect of male oppression and violence or insatiable sexual needs, nor is it an unproblematic economic encounter. The book provides a sophisticated explanation of the economic and political inequalities underlying prostitution, but also shows that while prostitution necessarily implies certain freedoms for the clients, the amount of freedom experienced by individual prostititutes varies greatly. This highly accessible book will be of great interest to those in gender and women's studies, sexuality and cultural studies, the sociology of work and organizations, and social policy. General readers will also appreciate having new ways of thinking about this age-old social phenomenon. Julia O'Connell Davidson is Lecturer in Sociology, University of Leicester.

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À propos de l'auteur

Julia O'Connell Davidson is Lecturer in Sociology, University of Leicester.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Michigan Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0472066951
• ISBN 13: 9780472066957
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
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