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On the Game

Women and Sex Work. Anthropology, Culture and Society

By (author) Sophie Day
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Pluto Press, London, United Kingdom
Published: 20th Jun 2007
Dimensions: w 134mm h 217mm d 15mm
Weight: 370g
ISBN-10: 0745317588
ISBN-13: 9780745317588
Barcode No: 9780745317588
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***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.

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'A highly engaging and thought-provoking text highlighting the challenges faced by sex workers in London. Highly recommended' -- Stuart Agnew, Lecturer in Criminology, University Campus Suffolk 'Academic interest in the sex industry is proliferating in a range of disciplines, and Sophie Day's book is a noteworthy addition' -- Gender and Development