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Book Synopsis
Day explores how individual sex workers live, in public and in private.

Trade Review
'A highly engaging and thought-provoking text highlighting the challenges faced by sex workers in London. Highly recommended' -- Stuart Agnew, Lecturer in Criminology, University Campus Suffolk
'Academic interest in the sex industry is proliferating in a range of disciplines, and Sophie Day's book is a noteworthy addition' -- Gender and Development

Table of Contents
Introduction
Histories in Person
1. A London Clinic: Anthropology and Health
2. Simply Work
3. What’s in a Name? The Distribution of Knowledge among Colleagues
4. Playing the Market against the State
5. The Right to Have Rights
6. The Uses of Money
7. Infertility, Pregnancy and Future Mothers
8. Consummate Artifice: Market Makes All
9. Counterpublics
10. Time on the Game
Epilogue: The Lifescapes of Public Women
References
Index

On the Game Women and Sex Work

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      Publisher Pluto Press
      Published 20 June 2007
      ISBN-13 9780745317588
      978-0745317588
      ISBN-10 745317588
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Day explores how individual sex workers live, in public and in private.

      Trade Review
      'A highly engaging and thought-provoking text highlighting the challenges faced by sex workers in London. Highly recommended' -- Stuart Agnew, Lecturer in Criminology, University Campus Suffolk
      'Academic interest in the sex industry is proliferating in a range of disciplines, and Sophie Day's book is a noteworthy addition' -- Gender and Development

      Table of Contents
      Introduction
      Histories in Person
      1. A London Clinic: Anthropology and Health
      2. Simply Work
      3. What’s in a Name? The Distribution of Knowledge among Colleagues
      4. Playing the Market against the State
      5. The Right to Have Rights
      6. The Uses of Money
      7. Infertility, Pregnancy and Future Mothers
      8. Consummate Artifice: Market Makes All
      9. Counterpublics
      10. Time on the Game
      Epilogue: The Lifescapes of Public Women
      References
      Index

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