Ethnography and Prostitution in Peru (Anthropology, Culture and Society) - Softcover

Nencel, Lorraine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745316611 ISBN 13: 9780745316611

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2001

Synopsis

In this lively, hard-hitting feminist study of prostitution, Lorraine Nencel interrogates the ways in which sexuality, gender and illicit behaviour have been constructed (and deconstructed) over the years. This is a richly detailed ethnographic account that interweaves narrative with theory. Nencel deals with issues such as AIDS, machismo and the regulation of the sex trade. She analyses the question of whether sex workers are victims or agents of control. In challenging conventional approaches to the study of sex workers and prostitution, Nencel has produced an original and provocative new study that is likely to provoke further discussion and debate.

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Review:

"Nencel writes from an explicitly feminist anthropology perspective, with the focus less on a regional-specific ethnography and more on trying to establish a set of patterns for "sex workers" despite frustration with the subjects' unwillingness to work toward the project's research goals. Two discourses on "women-who-prostitute" are laid out....Because the author is a post-modernist, she notes that the seemingly ethnographic sections are actually parts of separate conversations from separate incidents, pieced together to weave her argument. Of general interest for a range of social scientists and upper-division undergraduate students and above." -- CHOICE

Synopsis:

This work interrogates the ways in which sexuality, gender and illicit behaviour have been constructed (and deconstructed) over the years. It specifically looks at prostitution in the Third World and deals with AIDS, machismo and the regulation of the sex trade.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0745316611
• ISBN 13: 9780745316611
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264