Prostitution and Feminism: Towards a Politics of Feeling

Introduction: Socio-cultural Contexts-Renewed Methodologies for Social Research.

Part I Feminist Knowledge and Social Research: Understanding Prostitution.

1 Feminism(s) and Prostitution.

2 Feminist Knowledge and Social Research: Ethno-mimesis as Perfomative Praxis.

Part II Interpretive Ethnographies: Life History Work.

3 Women's Voices, Women's Lives.

4 Adolescent Prostitution: Runaways, Homelessness and Living in Local Authority Care.

III Feminist Postmodernisms and Ethnographies of Difference: between Modernity and Postmodernity.

5 Imagining Women: Prostitution, the Aestheticization of the Whore and the Social Organization of Desire.

6 The City, Masculinity and the Social Organization of Desire: Pimps and Punters.

7 Conclusion: Towards a Politics of Feeling.

Notes.

References.

Index.