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Neon Wasteland

Author : Susan Dewey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520948319
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Neon Wasteland written by Susan Dewey and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This path-breaking book examines the lives of five topless dancers in the economically devastated "rust belt" of upstate New York. With insight and empathy, Susan Dewey shows how these women negotiate their lives as parents, employees, and family members while working in a profession widely regarded as incompatible with motherhood and fidelity. Neither disparaging nor romanticizing her subjects, Dewey investigates the complicated dynamic of performance, resilience, economic need, and emotional vulnerability that comprises the life of a stripper. An accessibly written text that uses academic theories and methods to make sense of feminized labor, Neon Wasteland shows that sex work is part of the learned process by which some women come to believe that their self-esteem, material worth, and possibilities for life improvement are invested in their bodies.

Neon Dynasty

Author : StoryBuddiesPlay
Publisher : StoryBuddiesPlay
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neon Dynasty written by StoryBuddiesPlay and published by StoryBuddiesPlay. This book was released on 2024-05-08 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world ravaged by environmental neglect, Jax, a resourceful scavenger, embarks on a desperate quest to find the Kaminari Battery – a legendary power source rumored to exist in the mythical city of Shinka no Miyako. Accompanied by Kai, a scholar yearning for knowledge, they venture into the Forbidden Forest, a realm guarded by vengeful spirits. There, they discover a hidden entrance leading them to a breathtaking metropolis unlike anything they've ever seen. Shinka no Miyako, the City of Harmony, stands as a testament to a bygone era where technology and nature coexisted in perfect balance. However, their arrival awakens a malevolent entity, a manifestation of discord that seeks to exploit the city's forgotten power for its own destructive ends. Guided by the wisdom of ancient guardians – the kami – Jax and Kai must prove themselves worthy by facing the Trials of Harmony. These trials test their understanding of flow, growth, and cooperation, forcing them to confront not just their physical limitations, but also the deep-seated imbalance within their own world. As they delve deeper into the city, they uncover the secrets of the Chamber of Resonance, a repository of forgotten knowledge that holds the key to saving both Neo-Tokyo and Shinka no Miyako. Witnessing the consequences of both unchecked technology and the neglect of nature, Jax and Kai must choose their path. Will they succumb to the allure of absolute power, or can they forge a new way forward, one built on harmony and a deep respect for the delicate balance between humanity and the natural world? This is a story of adventure, self-discovery, and the importance of ecological balance. It explores themes of environmental responsibility, the power of cooperation, and the consequences of unchecked ambition. Join Jax and Kai on their thrilling quest as they unlock the secrets of a lost civilization and fight to restore harmony to a world teetering on the brink of destruction.

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1257626337
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (576 download)

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Sex Trafficking, Human Rights, and Social Justice

Author : Tiantian Zheng
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113695273X
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Sex Trafficking, Human Rights, and Social Justice written by Tiantian Zheng and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recognition of women’s human rights to migrate and work as sex workers is disregarded and dismissed by anti-trafficking discourses of rescue in the latest United Nation’s definition of trafficking. This volume explores the life experiences, agency, and human rights of trafficked women in order to shed light on the complicated processes in which anti-trafficking, human rights and social justice are intersected. In these articles, the authors critically analyze not only the conflation of trafficking with sex work in international and national discourses and its effects on migrant women, but also the global anti-trafficking policy and the root causes for the undocumented migration and employment. Featuring case studies on eleven countries including the US, Iran, Denmark, Paris, Hong Kong, and south east Asia and offering perspectives from transnational migrant population, the contributors rearticulate the trafficking discourses away from the state control of immigration and the global policing of borders, and reassert the social justice and the needs, agency, and human rights of migrant and working communities. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, gender studies, human rights, migration, sociology and anthropology.

Limit

Author : Frank Schätzing
Publisher : Arcadia
ISBN 13 : 0857385402
Total Pages : 1636 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book Limit written by Frank Schätzing and published by Arcadia. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 1636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for fans of Neal Stephenson and Peter F. Hamilton, an epic science-fiction novel from Germany's most successful thriller writer. The first space elevator connects the Earth to the Moon, prompting a breathless race between the Americans and Chinese to get to the Moon's helium-3 - the rare element that promises to solve all the world's energy problems. In Shanghai, cyber-detective Owen Jericho has been hired to find Yoyo, a missing girl, but what started as a routine investigation soon develops into a nightmarish hunt. There's a crazed assassin hot on his heels, all because Yoyo accidentally stumbled onto a secret society called Hydra - and now it's not just her life at risk. Following the Hydra trail takes Jericho and Yoyo round the world and finally to the Gaia, the Moon's very first hotel, where a billionaire entrepreneur is entertaining some of the world's richest and most influential men and women But the secret society that is Hydra has its own plans for the Earth - and the Moon. And nothing and no one will be allowed to stand in its way.

The Cambridge Companion to Comics

Author : Maaheen Ahmed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009255703
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Comics written by Maaheen Ahmed and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Comics presents comics as a multifaceted prism, generating productive and insightful dialogues with the most salient issues concerning the humanities at large. This volume provides readers with the histories and theories necessary for studying comics. It consists of three sections: Forms maps the most significant comics forms, including material formats and techniques. Readings brings together a selection of tools to equip readers with a critical understanding of comics. Uses examines the roles accorded to comics in museums, galleries, and education. Chapters explore comics through several key aspects, including drawing, serialities, adaptation, transmedia storytelling, issues of stereotyping and representation, and the lives of comics in institutional and social settings. This volume emphasizes the relationship between comics and other media and modes of expression. It offers close readings of vital works, covering more than a century of comics production and extending across visual, literary and cultural disciplines.

Diversity, Social Justice, and Inclusive Excellence

Author : Seth N. Asumah
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438451644
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Diversity, Social Justice, and Inclusive Excellence written by Seth N. Asumah and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 NYASA Book Award presented by the New York African Studies Association When students are introduced to the study of diversity and social justice, it is usually from sociological and psychological perspectives. The scholars and activists featured in this anthology reject this approach as too limiting, insisting that we adopt a view that is both transdisciplinary and multiperspectival. Their essays focus on the components of diversity, social justice, and inclusive excellence, not just within the United States but in other parts of the world. They examine diversity in the contexts of culture, race, class, gender, learned ability and dis/ability, religion, sexual orientation, and citizenship, and explore how these concepts and identities interrelate. The result is a book that will provide readers with a better theoretical understanding of diversity studies and will enable them to see and think critically about oppression and how systems of oppression may be challenged.

Love in the Drug War

Author : Sarah Luna
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477320504
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Love in the Drug War written by Sarah Luna and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 — Ruth Benedict Prize – Association for Queer Anthropology, American Anthropological Association 2020 — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize – National Women’s Studies Association 2020 — Honorable Mention, Sara A. Whaley Book Prize 2021 — Best Book in Social Sciences – Mexico Section, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Sex, drugs, religion, and love are potent combinations in la zona, a regulated prostitution zone in the city of Reynosa, across the border from Hidalgo, Texas. During the years 2008 and 2009, a time of intense drug violence, Sarah Luna met and built relationships with two kinds of migrants, women who moved from rural Mexico to Reynosa to become sex workers and American missionaries who moved from the United States to forge a fellowship with those workers. Luna examines the entanglements, both intimate and financial, that define their lives. Using the concept of obligar, she delves into the connections that tie sex workers to their families, their clients, their pimps, the missionaries, and the drug dealers—and to the guilt, power, and comfort of faith. Love in the Drug War scrutinizes not only la zona and the people who work to survive there, but also Reynosa itself—including the influences of the United States—adding nuance and new understanding to the current Mexico-US border crisis.

Street Sex Workers' Discourse

Author : Jill McCracken
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135944989
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Street Sex Workers' Discourse written by Jill McCracken and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating the voices and insights of street sex workers through personal interviews, this monograph argues that the material conditions of many street workers — the physical environments they live in and their effects on the workers’ bodies, identities, and spirits — are 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 placing responsibility for this marginalization on the society in which these people live.

Policing Pleasure

Author : Susan Dewey
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814785093
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Policing Pleasure written by Susan Dewey and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Policing Pleasure' examines cross-cultural public policies related to sex work, bringing together original ethnographic studies from around the worldufrom South Africa and Kenya to Mexico and India - to offer a nuanced critique of national and municipal approaches to regulating sex work.

Leaving Prostitution

Author : Sharon S. Oselin
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814785883
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Leaving Prostitution written by Sharon S. Oselin and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While street prostitutes comprise only a small minority of sex workers, they have the highest rates of physical and sexual abuse, arrest and incarceration, drug addiction, and stigmatization, which stem from both their public visibility and their dangerous work settings. Exiting the trade can be a daunting task for street prostitutes; despite this, many do try at some point to leave sex work behind. Focusing on four different organizations based in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and Hartford that help prostitutes get off the streets, Sharon S. Oselin’s Leaving Prostitution explores the difficulties, rewards, and public responses to female street prostitutes’ transition out of sex work. Through in-depth interviews and field research with street-level sex workers, Oselin illuminates their pathways into the trade and their experiences while in it, and the host of organizational, social, and individual factors that influence whether they are able to stop working as prostitutes altogether. She also speaks to staff at organizations that aid street prostitutes, and assesses the techniques they use to help these women develop self-esteem, healthy relationships with family and community, and workplace skills. Oselin paints a full picture of the difficulties these women face in moving away from sex work and the approaches that do and do not work to help them transform their lives. Further, she offers recommendations to help improve the quality of life for these women. A powerful ethnographic account, Leaving Prostitution provides an essential understanding of getting out and staying out of sex work.

Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004346252
Total Pages : 909 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 909 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution since 1600. It analyses more than 20 cities with an important sex industry and compares policies and social trends, coercion and agency, but also prostitutes' working and living conditions.

The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream

Author : Robert C. Hauhart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000385523
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream written by Robert C. Hauhart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we mean by the American dream? Can we define it? Or does any discussion of the phrase end inconclusively, the solid turned liquid—like ice melting? Do we know whether the American dream motivates and inspires or, alternately, obscures and deceives? The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream offers distinctive, authoritative, original essays by well-known scholars that address the social, economic, historical, philosophic, legal, and cultural dimensions of the American dream for the twenty-first century. The American dream, first discussed and defined in print by James Truslow Adams’s The Epic of America (1931), has become nearly synonymous with being American. Adams’s definition, although known to scholars, is often lost in our ubiquitous use of the term. When used today, the iconic phrase seems to encapsulate every fashion, fad, trend, association, or image the user identifies with the United States or American life. The American dream’s ubiquity, though, argues eloquently for a deeper understanding of its heritage, its implications, and its impact—to be found in this first research handbook ever published on the topic.

Women’s Work in Special Period Cuba

Author : Daliany Jerónimo Kersh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030056309
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Women’s Work in Special Period Cuba written by Daliany Jerónimo Kersh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The abrupt loss of Soviet financial support in 1989 resulted in the near-collapse of the Cuban economy, ushering in the almost two decades of austerity measures and severe shortages of food and basic consumer goods referred to as the Special Period. Through the innovative framework of individual and collective memory, Daliany Jerónimo Kersh brings together analysis of press sources and oral histories to offer a compelling portrait of how Cuban women cleverly combined various forms of paid work to make ends meet. Disproportionately impacted by the economic crisis given their role as primary caregivers and household managers and unable to survive on devalued state salaries alone, women often employed informal and illegal earning strategies. As she argues, this regression into gendered work such as cooking, sewing, cleaning, reselling, and providing sexual services precipitated by the post-Soviet crisis to a large extent marked a return to pre-revolutionary gendered divisions of labor.

Sex Work and Human Dignity

Author : Stewart Cunningham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000218066
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Sex Work and Human Dignity written by Stewart Cunningham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of human dignity is frequently, yet enigmatically, invoked in legal and political debates on sex work, where many people use it without much elaboration on exactly what they mean by it. Sex Work and Human Dignity: Law, Politics and Discourse sheds light on this enigma, by exploring how dignity-based discourses are used by those who write and talk about prostitution and also what role these discourses may play in shaping wider cultural understandings of sex work and sex workers. The book draws on political discourse theory and is international in its scope, with analysis of legal cases, textual sources, and empirical data gathered through interviews with activists from several different countries in the Global North and South. The book traces how the concept of dignity is used in a range of legal and political discourses on sex work and ultimately asks to what extent dignity-based discourses help to advance, or hinder, sex workers’ social inclusion. This book will appeal to students and researchers interested in sex work and feminism, as well as those who study human dignity. Its interdisciplinary nature means it will appeal to those working in a range of disciplines, including law, sociology, philosophy, and political theory.

Ethical Research with Sex Workers

Author : Susan Dewey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461464927
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Ethical Research with Sex Workers written by Susan Dewey and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the result of the many years the authors have spent conducting ethnographic field research with sex workers, conversing with other researchers, and, perhaps most importantly, developing a deep sense of empathy for the sex worker participants in the research as well as the colleagues who carry out this work with the goal of advancing social justice. They have a combined total of twenty-five years’ experience carrying out research with sex workers, and this extensive period of time has given them ample opportunity to reflect upon the topic of ethics. Sex work, defined as the exchange of sexual or sexualized intimacy for money or something of value, encompasses a wide range of legal and illegal behaviors that present researchers with key ethical challenges explored in the volume. These ethical challenges include: · Research methodology · Distinguishing research from activism · Navigating the politically and ideologically charged environments in which researchers must remain constantly attuned to the legal and public policy implications of their work · Possibilities for participatory sex work research processes · Strategies for incorporating participants in a variety of collaborative ways Sex work presents a unique set of challenges that are not always well understood by those working outside of anthropology and disciplines closely related to it. This book serves an important function by honestly and openly reviewing strategies for overcoming these ethical challenges with the end goal of producing path-breaking research that actively incorporates the perspectives of research participants on their own terms. Ever attuned to the reality that research on sex work remains a deeply political act, Ethical Research with Sex Workers: Anthropological Approaches aspires to begin a dialogue about the meanings and practices ascribed to ethics in a fraught environment. Drawing upon a review of published scholarly and activist work on the subject, as well as on interviews with researchers, social service providers, and sex workers themselves, this volume is an unprecedented contribution to the literature that will engage researchers across a variety of disciplines, such as academics and researchers in anthropology, sociology, criminal justice, and public health, as well as activists and policymakers.

Deviance

Author : Leon Anderson
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1071876686
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book Deviance written by Leon Anderson and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2024-03-27 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deviance: Social Constructions and Blurred Boundaries is designed for courses on social deviance that take a strong sociological perspective. The book draws on up-to-date scholarship across a wide spectrum of deviance categories, providing a symbolic interactionist analysis of the deviance process. The book addresses positivistic theories of deviant behavior within a description of the deviance process that encompasses the work of deviance claims-makers, rule-breakers, and social control agents. Students are introduced to the sociology of deviance and learn to analyze several kinds of criminal deviance that involve unwilling victims-such as murder, rape, street-level property crime, and white-collar crime. Students also learn to examine several categories of "lifestyle" and "status" deviance and develop skills for critical analysis of criminal justice and social policies. Overall, students gain an understanding of the sociology of deviance through cross-cultural comparisons, historical overview of deviance in the U.S., and up-close analysis of the lived experience of those who are labeled deviant as well as responses to them in the U.S. today