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Author O'Connell Davidson, Julia, 1960-

Title Prostitution, power and freedom / Julia O'Connell Davidson
Published Cambridge [England] : Polity Press, 1998

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Description viii, 232 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Pt. I. Dimensions of Diversity. 1. Power, Consent and Freedom. 2. Patterns of Pimping. 3. Independent Street Prostitution. 4. Independent Prostitution and Tourism. 5. Power and Freedom at the Apex of the Prostitution Hierarchy -- Pt. II. Prostitution and the Eroticization of Social Death. 6. Narratives of Power and Exclusion. 7. Eroticizing Prostitute Use. 8. Through Western Eyes: Honour, Gender and Prostitute Use. 9. Diversity, Dialectics and Politics
Summary This text offers perspectives on prostitution based on wide-ranging research in nine countries and extensive work with prostitute users
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [215]-224
Subject Brothels.
Prostitutes -- Attitudes.
Prostitutes -- Case studies.
Prostitution.
Sex-oriented businesses.
Sex tourism.
ISBN 0745617395
0745617409 (paperback)