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Abstract
In this 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.
'A very lively study. Very engaging, bound to find a market both within and outside anthropology, not least among feminist scholars'
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
'Excellent'
The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | v | ||
| Acknowledgements | viii | ||
| Introduction: Zooming in on the Locality | 1 | ||
| Scene One | 1 | ||
| Scene Two | 2 | ||
| The Conceptual Plot | 4 | ||
| Women- Who- Prostitute: A Story in Nine Parts | 6 | ||
| PART I ( EN) GENDERED ENCLOSURES | 11 | ||
| 1 A Historical Narrative of Prostitution | 13 | ||
| The Making of the History of Prostitution | 13 | ||
| The Call for Regulation ( 1858 1909) | 14 | ||
| The State of Affairs and the Need to Regulate | 17 | ||
| Regulation Takes Root ( 1910 1930s) | 21 | ||
| Abolition and Social Change: The Other Solution to the Prostitution Problem | 23 | ||
| Jiron Huatica Abolition or Regulation? ? The Campaign of the Magazine ยก Ya! ( 1949) 26Patterns of Repetition and Gender Meanings | 30 | ||
| 2 Read All About It: Gender Meanings and the Written Press | 32 | ||
| A Discursive Explosion: The Tormented Passion Between the Magnate and the Courtesan | 32 | ||
| ( Mis) Representations of Prostitution and the Prostitute in the Written Media 36Control and the Notion of Danger 36Working Women | 39 | ||
| The Vector of Illness | 42 | ||
| The ( De) Contextualized Prostitute | 44 | ||
| The Counter- discourse: Feminism and Sexual Slavery 46Fixed Images with No Way Out | 48 | ||
| 3 Prostitution and the Construction of Men's Sexual Selves | 50 | ||
| From the Theoretical Perspective | 50 | ||
| The Interviews: The Public Presentation of the Sexual Self | 52 | ||
| Talking Sexuality 56Labelling Women | 59 | ||
| Going to Prostitutes | 62 | ||
| The Prostitute as Sexual versus Social Actor | 65 | ||
| Constructing Sexual Selves | 67 | ||
| PART II DAY AND NIGHT | 71 | ||
| 4 Writing Up the Rhythm of Fieldwork: An Introduction to Part II | 73 | ||
| The Rhythm of Fieldwork | 73 | ||
| The Daytime Beat | 74 | ||
| The Night- time Swing | 77 | ||
| Epistemological and Ethical Dissonance | 81 | ||
| An Ethnography of Fieldwork | 88 | ||
| 5 Shaping Identities in First Encounters | 94 | ||
| Getting to Know the Women at Clara s | 94 | ||
| Crafting Everydayness | 102 | ||
| Shaping Identities | 113 | ||
| 6 Between the Stove and the Kitchen Table | 115 | ||
| Everyday Dynamics of Everyday Relationships 116Scene One 116Scene Two | 119 | ||
| Scene Three | 121 | ||
| Scene Four | 125 | ||
| El Paquetazo 126Condom( s) Talk( s) | 131 | ||
| A Few Words Dedicated to the Subject of Sexuality | 138 | ||
| The Funeral | 140 | ||
| Inventing a Moment of Closure | 147 | ||
| 7 The Fusion of Truths and Illusions: The Nightlife and Street Prostitution | 152 | ||
| El Ambiente | 152 | ||
| Nightwork | 155 | ||
| Love and Relationships under the Moonlight | 161 | ||
| 8 Between Four Walls. Embodying and Enacting the Prostitute | 176 | ||
| Mapping Out Profiles | 179 | ||
| Zoila and Mariana | 179 | ||
| Soledad | 190 | ||
| Suzanna and her Friends | 194 | ||
| Esperanza | 201 | ||
| Performing the Prostitute | 204 | ||
| An Epilogue | 207 | ||
| 9 Gendered Enclosures and Gender Identities | 210 | ||
| A Brief Recapitulation in a Theoretical Mode | 210 | ||
| Gendered Enclosures and Gender Meanings | 214 | ||
| Repetitive Patterns and Gender Meanings | 217 | ||
| Gender Identities: Self- Representations and Subjectivity | 220 | ||
| The Production of Fixed Illusions and the Postponement of Change | 225 | ||
| A Return Visit: Prostitution in Lima Anno 2000 | 228 | ||
| Notes | 231 | ||
| Introduction | 231 | ||
| CHAPTER 1 | 231 | ||
| CHAPTER 2 | 233 | ||
| CHAPTER 3 | 234 | ||
| CHAPTER 4 | 234 | ||
| CHAPTER 5 | 235 | ||
| CHAPTER 6 | 235 | ||
| CHAPTER 7 | 236 | ||
| CHAPTER 8 | 236 | ||
| CHAPTER 9 | 237 | ||
| Bibliography | 239 | ||
| Index | 245 | ||
| abolitionists | 31 | ||
| 31 | 31 |