Sex work
Constructing 'Families' With Community of Practice Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2172268 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kate W Read, Kate Read (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 60-78 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Community Work & Family (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1366-8803 • E-ISSN: 1469-3615 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13668803.2013.855625 |
| OpenAlex | W2325961446 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 32 |
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 language use within this community operates as a discursive framework which creates a metaphorical family where kin terms are used as an identity-making strategy. The implications of this research suggest that familial structures impact sex workers' sense of agency in relation to other members of the community. Finally, this article discusses the implications for understanding the discourse of a street-level sex worker community in the context of relationship formation and maintenance
Agency (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Geography · Identity (music · Political science · Public relations · Relation (database · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Computer Science · Engineering · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Gender Studies · Social Psychology
The Dialogic Imagination
Communities of Practice
Rural Woman Battering and the Justice System
Antecedents to Prostitution
Situating learning in communities of practice.
All our kin
Toward an anthropology of women.
The Politics of Reproduction
Violence and Sex Work in Britain
Women in Prison
Language and Gender
The Elementary Structures of Kinship
Black Sexual Politics
Sociolinguistics
Understanding Human Trafficking in the United States
Prostitution Harms Women Even if Indoors
Violence in Indoor and Outdoor Prostitution Venues
Pimp-Controlled Prostitution
Mapping the Margins
Searching for Kinship
Language and woman's place
Fictive Kinship Relations in black extended families
The Community of Practice
Language and woman's place
Situated Learning
American Kinship
Sexual Abuse as a Precursor to Prostitution and Victimization Among Adolescent and Adult Homeless Women
Language and Agency
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,42 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |