Ethnography and prostitution in Peru
By: Lorraine Nencel.
Series: Anthropology, culture, and society
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; Sterling, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Prostitution -- Peru.; Women -- Peru -- Social conditions.
Description: "A feminist study of prostitution in Peru, this book interrogates the ways in which sexuality, gender and illicit behaviour have been constructed (and deconstructed) over the years. Lorraine 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Zooming in on the locality; title: Engendered enclosures; title: Read all about it : gender meanings and the written press; title: Prostitution and the construction of men's sexual selves; title: Day and night; title: Writing up the rhythm of fieldwork; title: Shaping identities in first encounters; title: Between the stove and tbe kitchen table; title: The fusion of truths into illusions : the night life and street prostitution; title: Between the four walls : embodying and enacting the prostitute.