'Been There, Seen it, Done it, I've Got the T-shirt': British Sex Worker's Reflect on Jobs, Hopes, the Future and Retirement
Author: Rickard W.
Source: Feminist Review, Volume 67, Number 1, 1 2001 , pp. 111-132(22)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Abstract:
While analysis of what takes people into prostitution has been widely documented, this article explores the way adult '30 something' prostitutes consider their futures and the ideas they have about leaving or staying in prostitution. Drawing on contested notions of prostitution as 'work' and the broader context of life-history research with sex workers, it explores the experiences that frame prostitutes' own narratives about their working lives and futures. An illustrative range of five lifehistory accounts from British sex workers are analysed as 'imagined' curriculum vitae, listing emergent ategories of: aliases, education, interests, thoughts on retirement, financial planning, getting older, hopes and ambitions and fantasy futures. These 'stories' are analysed looking at ways they inform on-going feminist debates about the realities of (voluntary adult) sex workers' concerns. They point again to the relevance for sex workers and feminists of understanding sex work as 'a job'.Keywords: SEX WORK; JOB; CURRICULUM VITAE; FUTURE; RETIREMENT; LIFE-HISTORY
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