Of Vice and Women: Shades of Prostitution
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This work discusses society's attempts to define and understand sexual relations, whether in the form of public or secluded encounters. Using three general perspectives to classify earlier and more recent research, J rvinen analyzes the content and implications of these theoretical frameworks. She shows that the the systematization of controlling prostitution as a "functionalist" approach starkly demonstrates the underlying assumptions of past--and, to a certain extent, current--strategies to control commercial sex. The author fully acknowledges the feminist perspective of prostitution and its disclosure of gender biased power relations. Her efforts to interweave "constructionist" thinking with a massive empirical analysis of the control of prostitution merit special attention.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:8200212831
ISBN13:9788200212836
Release Date:May 1993
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.77 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.8"
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