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On the Game: Women and Sex Work
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On the Game: Women and Sex Work Hardcover - 2007

by Sophie Day


From the publisher

***Winner of the Eileen Basker Prize and the Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems.*** On the Game is an ethnographic account of prostitutes and prostitution. Sophie Day has followed the lives of individual women over fifteen years, and her book details their attempts to manage their lives against a backdrop of social disapproval. The period was one of substantial change within the sex industry.Through the lens of public health, economics, criminalisation and human rights, Day explores how individual sex workers live, in public and in private. This offers a unique perspective on contemporary capitalist society that will be of interest both to a broad range of social scientists.The author brings a unique perspective to her work -- as both an anthropologist and the founder of the renowned Praed Street Project, set up in 1986, as a referral and support centre for London prostitutes.

Details

  • Title On the Game: Women and Sex Work
  • Author Sophie Day
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pluto Press (UK)
  • Date June 27, 2007
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
  • ISBN 9780745317595 / 0745317596
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Prostitution, Prostitutes - Social conditions
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007298907
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.742

About the author

Susanna W. Grannis founded and led, until 2010, CHABHA, Children Affected by HIV/AIDS. CHABHA partners with community-based children's associations in Africa. She was professor and dean at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Queens College - CUNY, and at the Bank Street College of Education. Her previous publications (as Susanna W. Pflaum) focused on childrena (TM)s education.