01778 a2200313 4500 1138952516 20250317100417.0 250312042015GB 32 eng 9781138952515 Taylor & Francis GBP 39.99 BB 01 eng JBSF thema JHB thema JBF thema JFSJ bic JHB bic JFF bic SOC002010 bisac PSY016000 bisac SOC026000 bisac 306.74 bisac Jill McCracken Street Sex Workers' Discourse Realizing Material Change Through Agential Choice 1 Oxford Routledge 20150908 240 p 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. 3025 3025