Prostitute Identities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8401274 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jo Phoenix (0000-0002-7242-5038, Middlesex University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-55 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjc/40.1.37 |
| OpenAlex | W4247188812 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
This paper is concerned with women’s sustained involvement in prostitution. In the late twentieth century it is taken for granted that women’s involvement in prostitution can be explained in terms of poverty and/or vulnerability to predatory men. However, closer examination of the stories that prostitute-women recount reveals that their narratives are marked by a paradox that inheres in the contradictory effects of involvement in prostitution and the antithetical representations of prostitution offered by the women. Thus the question arises: how are the contradictions accommodated in a way that permits the women to make sense of (and thus be sustained within) prostitution. This paper focuses on the discursive strategies that the women deployed to do so. One of the key devices is the construction of a prostitute-identity which is constituted within very specific, but shifting, meanings of ‘men’, ‘money’ and ‘violence’.
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Beyond stereotypes
A Present and a Non-Present Body—Experiencing the Body by Female Sex Workers in Commercial Sexual Relations
Violence by clients towards female prostitutes in different work settings
Invisibilized victims
Unraveling the Sexual Victimization of Sex Workers
A continuum of risk? The management of health, physical and emotional risks by female sex workers
Priorities for the minority? Street-based sex work and Partnerships and Communities Together (Pact)
Tackling on-street sex work
Reclaiming the “good women” identity
A Narrative Approach to Women’s Lawbreaking
Off-street sex workers and victim-orientated policymaking at the local level
Sex Work and “Date” Violence
It's Just Acting
Alternative Cartographies of Homelessness
The Lived Experiences of Sex Workers in South Africa
‘Looking back, I don’t quite recognise myself’
Sexual Exhibitionism as ‘Sexuality and Individuality’
‘It gets very intimate for me’
What’s in a Name? Public Perceptions of Sex Worker Professionals Are Differentially Influenced by Terminology
Business Women and Exit Programs
Identity management, negotiation and resistance among women in the sex trade in London, Ontario
Patterns of sexual commerce among women at US Syringe Exchange Programs
Effects of transnational migration on drug use
When Being Good Is Bad
Gender, Social Networks, and Residential Burglary
Biographical work and the production of credibility in sex work interviews
Sex Work Stigma
Constructing the 'respectable' client and the 'good' researcher
Designing out vulnerability, building in respect
Vice Careers
The boundaries of belonging
Street Smarts and Urban Myths
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,28 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |