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British Sex Worker's Reflect on Jobs, Hopes, the Future and Retirement

Bibliographic Data

ID3945781
AuthorsWendy Rickard (corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume67
Issue1
Pages111-132
Publication date2001-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/01417780150514547
OpenAlexW2074630409
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited16

While analysis of what takes people into prostitution has been widely documented, this article explores the way adult '30 something' prostitutes consider their futures and the ideas they have about leaving or staying in prostitution. Drawing on contested notions of prostitution as 'work' and the broader context of life-history research with sex workers, it explores the experiences that frame prostitutes' own narratives about their working lives and futures. An illustrative range of five life-history accounts from British sex workers are analysed as 'imagined' curriculum vitae, listing emergent categories of: aliases, education, interests, thoughts on retirement, financial planning, getting older, hopes and ambitions and fantasy futures. These 'stories' are analysed looking at ways they inform on-going feminist debates about the realities of (voluntary adult) sex workers' concerns. They point again to the relevance for sex workers and feminists of understanding sex work as 'a job

Context (archaeology) · Futures contract · Narrative · Political science · Relevance (law) · Research methodology · Sex work · Sex workers · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Law · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

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