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Author McCracken, Jill.

Title Street sex workers' discourse [electronic resource] : realizing material change through agential choice / Jill McCracken.

Imprint New York : Routledge, 2013.

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Edition 1st ed.
Description xxxvi, 240 p. : ill.
Series Routledge research in gender and society ; 34
Routledge research in gender and society ; 34.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents List of figures -- Note on the transcriptions -- Preface: telling our stories : street-based sex work -- Acknowledgments -- Quotidian rhetoric creates meaning through collage -- Who is the victim : the neighborhood or the woman? -- Is she a criminal, a victim, or a victim of the criminal justice system? -- "An opportunity to change" : responsibility and choice -- Systemic violence perpetuates victim status -- Releasing agential choice from cages of oppression -- Appendix A: Participants -- Appendix B: Research process and layers of data -- Appendix C: Number of times terms included in newspaper and participant interviews corpora -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Language and culture.
Rhetoric -- Social aspects.
Semantics -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780415887076 (hbk.)
9780203384992 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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