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BL
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1009868
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b764238
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| Main Entry
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Day, Sophie.
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| Title & Author
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On the game : : women and sex work /\ Sophie Day.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;Ann Arbor, MI :: Pluto Press,, 2007.
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| Series Statement
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Anthropology, culture, and society
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1 online resource (ix, 277 pages).
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| ISBN
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1783714778
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: 1849641137
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: 9781783714773
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: 9781849641135
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0745317588
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0745317596
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9780745317588
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9780745317595
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-261) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Public women -- A London clinic: anthropology and health -- Simply work -- What's in a name? The distribution of knowledge among colleagues -- Playing the market against the state -- The right to have rights -- The uses of money -- Infertility, pregnancy and future mothers -- Consummate artifice: market makes all -- Counterpublics -- Time on the game -- Epilogue: the lifescapes of public women.
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| Abstract
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Day explores how individual sex workers live, in public and in private.
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Prostitutes-- Social conditions.
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Prostitution, Case studies.
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Prostitutes-- Social conditions.
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Prostitution
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Prostitution.
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PSYCHOLOGY-- Human Sexuality.
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SELF-HELP-- Sexual Instruction.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.74/2
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| LC Classification
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HQ118.D39 2007eb
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