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  title info:
    title: Ethical Research with Sex Workers
    sub title: Anthropological Approaches
  name:
    name part: Dewey, Susan.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Zheng, Tiantian.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 111 p. online resource.
  abstract: This volume is the result of the many years the authors have spent conducting ethnographic field research with sex workers, conversing with other researchers, and, perhaps most importantly, developing a deep sense of empathy for the sex worker participants in the research as well as the colleagues who carry out this work with the goal of advancing social justice. They have a combined total of twenty-five years’ experience carrying out research with sex workers, and this extensive period of time has given them ample opportunity to reflect upon the topic of ethics. Sex work, defined as the exchange of sexual or sexualized intimacy for money or something of value, encompasses a wide range of legal and illegal behaviors that present researchers with key ethical challenges explored in the volume. These ethical challenges include: · Research methodology · Distinguishing research from activism · Navigating the politically and ideologically charged environments in which researchers must remain constantly attuned to the legal and public policy implications of their work · Possibilities for participatory sex work research processes · Strategies for incorporating participants in a variety of collaborative ways Sex work presents a unique set of challenges that are not always well understood by those working outside of anthropology and disciplines closely related to it. This book serves an important function by honestly and openly reviewing strategies for overcoming these ethical challenges with the end goal of producing path-breaking research that actively incorporates the perspectives of research participants on their own terms. Ever attuned to the reality that research on sex work remains a deeply political act, Ethical Research with Sex Workers: Anthropological Approaches aspires to begin a dialogue about the meanings and practices ascribed to ethics in a fraught environment. Drawing upon a review of published scholarly and activist work on the subject, as well as on intervi…
  note: by Susan Dewey, Tiantian Zheng.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Sexual behavior
  subject:
    topic: Sexual psychology
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Sexual Behavior
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, general
  classification: HM545
  classification: 301
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs in Anthropology
  identifier: 9781461464921
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6492-1
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