Description

• Title:
  Social Construction of Sex Work: Ethnography of Escort Agencies in Poland
• Creator:
  Ślęzak, Izabela
• Contributor:
  University of Łódź, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, Department of Sociology of Organization and Management
• Description:
  The book presents the social organization of escort agencies in Poland. The author focuses on analyzing the actions of female sex workers who are seen as active entities co-creating their working conditions. The author discusses the relationships between employees of the premises, namely the women providing sex services, the managers of the agencies and the security workers. Furthermore, she analyses the interactions between sex workers and their clients. The book is addressed to people who are interested in qualitative sociology, and those who would like to understand contemporary escort agencies in Poland. It will be also interesting for employees of organizations which work with people who provide sex services.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  © Copyright by Izabela Ślęzak, Łódź 2019; © Copyright by University of Łódź, Łódź 2019; © Copyright for this edition by Jagiellonian University Press;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2024.08.28;
  2019.03.04
• Type:
  Book
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Subject:
  aggressive behaviors of clients;
  security guards;
  agency managers;
  escort agencies;
  sex work
• Identifier:
  Ślęzak I., Social Construction of Sex Work: Ethnography of Escort Agencies in Poland, Jagiellonian University Press, https://doi.org/10.18778/8142-096-9;
  978-83-8142-096-9;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/53032 ;
  978-83-8142-097-6;
  10.18778/8142-096-9
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  image