Jill McCracken - Street Sex Workers Discourse

Street Sex Workers Discourse

Incorporating the voices and insights of street sex workers through personal interviews, this monograph argues that the material conditions of people involved in street economiesthe physical environments they live in and their effects on their bodies, identities, and spiritsare represented, reproduced, and entrenched in the language surrounding their work. As an ethnographic case study of a local system that can be extrapolated to other subcultures and the construction of identities, this book disrupts some of the more prevalent academic and lay understandings about street prostitution by providing a thorough analysis of the material conditions surrounding street work and their connection to discourse. McCracken offers an explanation of how constructions can be made differently in order to achieve representations that are generated by the marginalized populations themselves, while examining more closely societys role in this marginalization.

Jill McCracken is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg where she researches and teaches the rhetoric of marginalized communities, in particular that of sex work/trafficking; public policy; gender studies; civic engagement; and communication across the curriculum. Her research appears in Wagadu (2011) and the Community Literacy Journal (2010).

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Street Sex Workers Discourse

Realizing Material Change Through Agential Choice

Jill McCracken

First published 2013

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

McCracken, Jill.

Street sex workers discourse : realizing material change through agential choice / by Jill McCracken. 1st Edition.

pages cm. (Routledge research in gender and society ; 34) Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Language and culture. 2. RhetoricSocial aspects. 3. SemanticsSocial aspects. I. Title.