Buying and Selling Power - Anthropological Reflections on Prostitution in Spain

This book explores the complex identities and connection between clients and prostitutes living in Spain and life beyond prostitution. It reflects on the relationship between the anthropologist and that of his/her subjects and informants.

List of contents

1. Of Heterosexual Prostitution and Its Audiences: An Introduction 2. Power and Prostitution 3. Portrait of a Barrio and Its People 4. Doing Research in the Barrio 5. Prostitution in Spain 6. Margins and Centres: Prostitution in Space 7. Economic Impingement: Discourses of Reciprocity, Exchange and Friendship 8. Powerful Emotions: Love, Hate, Romance, (In)fidelity, Sex and Violence 9. Gender, Power and Prostitution in the Barrio 10. Spanish Men, Spanish Clients, Spanish Masculinities 11. Queerying Iberian Ethnography

About the author

Angie Hart

Product details

• Authors: Angie Hart, Hart Angie
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367159696
• ISBN: 978-0-367-15969-6
• No. of pages: 267
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Urban communities, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Sexual Behaviour