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Neon wasteland : on love, motherhood, and sex work in a rust belt town
- Author
- Dewey, Susan.
- Title
- Neon wasteland : on love, motherhood, and sex work in a rust belt town / Susan Dewey.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
- Description
- xxii, 258 p. ; 24 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Introduction
- Feminized labor and the classed body
- Everyday survival strategies
- Being a good mother in a "bad" profession
- Pseudointimacy and romantic love
- Calculating risks, surviving danger
- Body work and the feminization of poverty
- Conclusion.
- Kinsey subjects
- Striptease. Deviant behavior. Deviant groups. Working women. Women and employment. Women--Northeastern States. Self concept--Female. Social ethics--Female--Northeastern States.
- ISBN
- 9780520266902 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520266900 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780520266919 (pbk : alk. paper) 0520266919 (pbk : alk. paper)