Time After Time

The Temporal Organization of Red-Collar Work

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4355995
AutoresJoanna Brewis (0000-0001-7617-331X), Stephen Linstead (0000-0002-1006-2921)
Año1998
Volumen7
Número2-3
Páginas223-248
Fecha de publicación1998-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTime & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0961463x98007002004
OpenAlexW4233014313
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas39

Following the recent resurgence of interest in time and space in the social and organizational sciences, this paper examines the significance of time in prostitution. Prostitution provides a useful basis for analysis, given that it is at once similar (in its provision of consumer services) and different (in that sexuality is not fully commodified) to other industries. Time is significant to prostitution - for example, the industry is to some extent seasonal, human sexual activity being known to increase during spring and summer. Using data from studies of prostitution undertaken in various locations in the UK, the US and Australia, time is addressed from the perspective of the client and the prostitute - and we argue that time for prostitutes and clients is experienced and constructed very differently. Time is shown to be gendered in ways which mean that, paradoxically, the characteristics of time as experienced in the encounter may be the reverse of the participants' gender - female prostitutes experiencing masculine, striated time whilst clients experience or pursue a more feminine, relational time

Commodification · Economics · Human sexuality · Perspective (graphical · Sociology · Time-Space · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology