Special issue [electronic resource] : problematizing prostitution : critical research and scholarship / edited by Austin Sarat, Department of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought and Political Science, Amherst College, USA ; Special issue editors, Katie Hail-Jares, School of Public Affairs, American University, USA; Chrysanthi Leon, Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware, USA; Corey Shdaimah, Social Work, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA.

The scholars who contribute to this issue utilize diverse research methods to examine the lived experiences of people engaged in prostitution and the people and institutions that process them --Back cover.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Studies in law, politics, and society.
Other Authors: Sarat, Austin (Editor)
Hail-Jares, Katie (Editor)
Leon, Chrysanthi S. (Editor)
Shdaimah, Corey S. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Bingley, UK : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Studies in law, politics, and society.
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Variant Title:
Problematizing prostitution : critical research and scholarship
Special Issue: Problematizing Prostitution: Critical Research and Scholarship
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Sex worker or student? : legitimation and master status in academia / Jenny Heineman
  • "In my head, I didn't feel like I had done anything wrong" : women's experiences prostituting women and girls / Mahri Irvine
  • Relationships among stigmatized women engaged in street-level prostitution : coping with stigma and stigma management / Corey Shdaimah and Chrysanthi S. Leon
  • Reform or remand? : race, nativity, and the immigrant family in the history of prostitution / Anne E. Bowler, Terry G. Lilley and Chrysanthi S. Leon
  • Inevitably violent? : dynamics of space, governance, and stigma in understanding violence against sex workers / Teela Sanders
  • Bad dates : how prostitution strolls impact client-initiated violence / Katie Hail-Jares
  • Unionizing sex workers : the Karnataka experience / Subadra Panchanadeswaran, Gowri Vijayakumar, Shabha Chacko and Andy Bhanot.