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Author Day, Sophie.

Title On the game : women and sex work / Sophie Day
Published London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 277 pages)
Series Anthropology, culture, and society
Anthropology, culture, and society.
Contents Introduction: Public women -- A London clinic: anthropology and health -- Simply work -- What's in a name? The distribution of knowledge among colleagues -- Playing the market against the state -- The right to have rights -- The uses of money -- Infertility, pregnancy and future mothers -- Consummate artifice: market makes all -- Counterpublics -- Time on the game -- Epilogue: the lifescapes of public women
Summary Day explores how individual sex workers live, in public and in private
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-261) and index
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Subject Prostitutes -- Social conditions
Prostitution -- Case studies
PSYCHOLOGY -- Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP -- Sexual Instruction.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Prostitutes -- Social conditions
Prostitution
Prostitution
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781849641135
1849641137
9781783714773
1783714778