Autore
Veneri, Camilla

Titolo
Vendere servizi sessuali. Rappresentazioni e pratiche di una professione
Periodico
Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa
Anno: 2013 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 423 - Pagina finale: 434

The aim of this article is to discuss the results of an empirical research on sex workers'narrations, focusing on their «voluntary», not forced, prostitution experience.Firstly, the article introduces the main research contributions to the theme of sex aslabor, which suggest analyzing the consensual selling of sexual services as a workactivity. It then describes in detail the procedure of collecting and analyzing the data.Different representations, types of working practices, and symbolic strategies sharedwithin a professional community are illustrated. Like all working activities, in fact,sex work is shaped by representations and shared meanings, in this case relatedto sexuality and the selling of sex, as well as comprising work performance, socialrules, reproduction processes and transmission of explicit and tacit knowledge.



SICI: 1973-3194(2013)3<423:VSSREP>2.0.ZU;2-U
Testo completo: http://www.mulino.it/download/article/10.3240/75033
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