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Kramer, Lisa A.

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Prostitution: Why women enter, what they experience emotionally, and how they use substances to cope.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Prostitution: Why women enter, what they experience emotionally, and how they use substances to cope./
Author:	Kramer, Lisa A.
Description:	311 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-06, Section: A, page: 2337.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-06A.
Subject:	Women's Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3220315
ISBN:	9780542741982

Prostitution: Why women enter, what they experience emotionally, and how they use substances to cope.
Kramer, Lisa A.

Prostitution: Why women enter, what they experience emotionally, and how they use substances to cope. - 311 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-06, Section: A, page: 2337.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2006.

In this study, prominent attitudes toward and legal responses to prostitution during three periods of political activism in the United States are examined. Contemporary and conflicting conceptualizations of prostitution are discussed. Survey data obtained from 176 prostituting women and 53 non-prostituting women, and interview data gathered from 18 prostituting women, are used to explore areas of disagreement among contemporary feminist scholars concerning the nature and meaning of sex work. Whereas some feminists emphasize the role of agency in explaining women's participation in prostitution, others emphasize the significance of constraints that force women into the sex trade.

ISBN: 9780542741982Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017481
Women's Studies.

Prostitution: Why women enter, what they experience emotionally, and how they use substances to cope.
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520 $a In this study, prominent attitudes toward and legal responses to prostitution during three periods of political activism in the United States are examined. Contemporary and conflicting conceptualizations of prostitution are discussed. Survey data obtained from 176 prostituting women and 53 non-prostituting women, and interview data gathered from 18 prostituting women, are used to explore areas of disagreement among contemporary feminist scholars concerning the nature and meaning of sex work. Whereas some feminists emphasize the role of agency in explaining women's participation in prostitution, others emphasize the significance of constraints that force women into the sex trade.
520 $a I test sexual traumatization theory in exploring whether childhood sexual abuse, and other risks and disadvantages, influence participation in prostitution. I examine emotional labor theory as a means of explaining prostituting women's emotional experiences of "turning tricks". Finally, I test strain theory in exploring whether substance use by prostituting women represents a means of coping with stress related to prostituting women's unfavorable placement within the social order. Analytical strategies for both quantitative and qualitative data are employed.
520 $a Findings support sexual traumatization theory. Childhood sexual abuse appears to shape some individual's sexual feelings and sexual attitudes in a developmentally and interpersonally dysfunctional fashion such that the odds of participating in prostitution are greater.
520 $a While some women reported experiencing prostitution in emotionally neutral or positive terms, for the majority of study participants, prostitution elicited a wide range of highly negative and potentially damaging feelings which are not commonly experienced or managed by traditional emotional laborers. When compared with other types of marginal jobs, it is clear that prostitution entails the performance of emotional labor, but often places other, more insidious demands on women as well.
520 $a Finally, substance abuse is characterized as a means by which individuals cope with chronic stress and negative life events. Factors shown to predict substance abuse by prostituting women include the negative impact of prostituting on self esteem, the number of physical and sexual assaults sustained, and the extent to which prostituting requires repression of true emotions.
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