Kate W Read
Biographic Data
| ID | 3920862 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate W Read |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate W |
| FAMILY NAME | Read |
| SIGNATURE | READ K W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Doctoral candidate, Arizona State University, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sex work: Constructing 'Families' With Community of Practice Theory
This article examines the construction and maintenance of fictive kinships within a street-level sex work community. The analysis is supported by interviews of 14 street-level sex workers regarding everyday language use within their community. Utilizing community of practice theory to demonstrate how peripheral participants of the sex work community are socialized to understand and participate in fictive kinships, a primary finding is that langua…
Queering the brothel: Identity construction and performance in Carson City, Nevada
In an attempt to examine the brothel as a queer space, this article investigates identity construction and performance within the Cookie Guest Ranch, a legal brothel in Carson City, Nevada. This analysis is supported by the interviews of eight sex workers and seven staff members about the everyday social relationships within this space. A primary finding of this research is that brothels are not bastions of heteronormative domination but are spac…
Neon Wasteland: On Love, Motherhood, and Sex Work in a Rust Belt Town
Susan Dewey Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 2011, 288 pp., US$28.95 paperback, (ISBN 978-0-5202-6691-9),, US$60.00 hardcover, (ISBN 978-0-5202-6690-2) Susan Dewey's third book, Neon Wa
Tiantian Zheng, Ethnographies of Prostitution in Contemporary China: Gender Relations, HIV/Aids, and Nationalism
Sex work: Constructing 'Families' With Community of Practice Theory
This article examines the construction and maintenance of fictive kinships within a street-level sex work community. The analysis is supported by interviews of 14 street-level sex workers regarding everyday language use within their community. Utilizing community of practice theory to demonstrate how peripheral participants of the sex work community are socialized to understand and participate in fictive kinships, a primary finding is that langua…
Queering the brothel: Identity construction and performance in Carson City, Nevada
In an attempt to examine the brothel as a queer space, this article investigates identity construction and performance within the Cookie Guest Ranch, a legal brothel in Carson City, Nevada. This analysis is supported by the interviews of eight sex workers and seven staff members about the everyday social relationships within this space. A primary finding of this research is that brothels are not bastions of heteronormative domination but are spac…
Neon Wasteland: On Love, Motherhood, and Sex Work in a Rust Belt Town
Susan Dewey Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 2011, 288 pp., US$28.95 paperback, (ISBN 978-0-5202-6691-9),, US$60.00 hardcover, (ISBN 978-0-5202-6690-2) Susan Dewey's third book, Neon Wa
Tiantian Zheng, Ethnographies of Prostitution in Contemporary China: Gender Relations, HIV/Aids, and Nationalism
Sex work: Constructing 'Families' With Community of Practice Theory
This article examines the construction and maintenance of fictive kinships within a street-level sex work community. The analysis is supported by interviews of 14 street-level sex workers regarding everyday language use within their community. Utilizing community of practice theory to demonstrate how peripheral participants of the sex work community are socialized to understand and participate in fictive kinships, a primary finding is that langua…
Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Sex work and related issues (3 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Work (physics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)