Trading for a Place: Poor Women and Prostitution

摘要: Abstract On the basis of participant observation at an organization dedicated to helping poor and marginalized women escape prostitution, I argue that prostitution cannot be adequately understood without considering conditions under which live. Conversely, 1 also women's poverty analysis role in it. In much scholarship, public opinion, according state, however, prostitute are defined primarily as “criminal” or “deviant,” rather than impoverished citizens legitimately need assistance. Further, scholarship on generally treats “poor women” “prostitutes” mutually exclusive categories. To counter what believe faulty assumptions existing offer expand upon three basic assertions: (a) do not enter by choice, (b) is analogous legitimate employment for women, (c) a way...