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1 results foundAuthor: Rosen, Eva Title: A "Perversion" of Choice: Sex Work Offers Just Enough in Chicago's Urban Ghetto Summary: In an apartment building on Chicago’s Southside, fifty of the seventy-five residents are sex workers. Our study uses in-depth interviews and participant observation of Chicago’s sex work economy to argue that sex work is one constituent part of an overall low-wage, off- the-books economy of resource exchange among individuals in a bounded geographic setting. To an outsider, the decision to be a sex worker seems irrational; in this paper we argue that specific localized conditions invert this decision and render it entirely rational. For the men and women in our study, sex work acts as a short-term solution that satisfices the demands of persistent poverty and instability, and it provides a meaningful option in the quest for a job that provides autonomy and personal fulfillment. Details: New York: Center for Urban Research and Policy, Columbia University, 2009. 37p. Source: Internet Resource; Accessed August 8, 2010 at: http://www.sociology.columbia.edu/pdf-files/rosenvenk.pdf Year: 2009 Country: United States URL: http://www.sociology.columbia.edu/pdf-files/rosenvenk.pdf Shelf Number: 116302 Keywords: EthnographyProstitutesProstitutionSex Work (Chicago) |