Sex Work. A Risky Business.

Sanders, Teela:

ISBN 10: 1843920824 / ISBN 13: 9781843920823

Published by Cullompton: Willan, 2005

About this Item

vi 211p paperback, black cover with bright colour design, very good condition, minimal wear, binding tight, name to endpaper, pages clean and bright like new, very good copy with hardly any signs of use Language: English.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sex Work. A Risky Business.
• Publisher: Cullompton: Willan
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1843920824
• ISBN 13: 9781843920823
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Gender Studies

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Synopsis

This is a richly detailed account of the way the sex industry works, and one of the few empirical studies that investigates the off street industry in Britain. The book seeks to advance a greater knowledge of the social organisation of the sex industry by uncovering the day-to-day activities of women involved in the indoor markets. What types of occupational risks do women experience in work of this kind? How do these hazards affect their personal lives? A key concern throughout the book is to assess whether women are passive victims of the circumstances of prostitution or whether they understand and calculate their responses to danger. Drawing upon both sociological and criminological theories, and on detailed research in the city of Birmingham, the author addresses these questions by estimating the rationality of those responses and by providing a measure of how women make sense of different risks. Sex Work: a risky business describes how women create complex psychological and emotional techniques to maintain their sanity while selling sex, and goes on to argue that the indoor sex markets in Britain have a distinct 'occupational culture' with a set of social norms, code of conduct and moral hierarchies that make it a high regulated workplace despite its illicit and sometimes illegal nature.

About the Author

Teela Sanders