Street Woman
Series: Women in the political economy
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Female offenders -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee.; Prostitution -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee.
Genres: Sociology; Criminology; Women's/Gender Studies
First sentence: For a long time, the social sciences were silent on the topic of the criminality of women.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 191-195.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: I. The Sociological Study of the Criminality of Women; title: II. Deviant Street Networks: The Social Context of Female Hustling; title: III. The Recruitment of Young Women to Deviant Street Networks: The Role of Domestic Networks; title: IV. Running Away and Drug Use as Routes to Deviant Networks; title: V. Living the Fast Life: The Unique Conditions of Hustling as Women's Work; title: VI. Dreams: Aspirations, Role Models, and Attitudes; title: VII. Thoughts on the Underclass, the Women's Movement, and Increases in the Criminality of Women; title: Afterword on the Research Experience; title: References; title: Index