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Shanmugham, Uma M.

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Women in the Sex industry: A Qualitative Study of their Meaning-Making About the Language Used to Describe Them.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Women in the Sex industry: A Qualitative Study of their Meaning-Making About the Language Used to Describe Them./
Author:	Shanmugham, Uma M.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	184 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-05(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-05B(E).
Subject:	Clinical psychology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10192870
ISBN:	9781369332834

Women in the Sex industry: A Qualitative Study of their Meaning-Making About the Language Used to Describe Them.
Shanmugham, Uma M.

Women in the Sex industry: A Qualitative Study of their Meaning-Making About the Language Used to Describe Them. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 184 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-05(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Psy.D.)--William James College, 2016.

This study explored how women with experiences in the United States' sex industry think about and describe their own identities and their thoughts about the language that experts, such as academics, policymakers, and therapists, use to describe them, and their activities in the sex industry, and the industry itself. The literature on women in the sex industry clearly reflects how social discourses about women in the sex industry have been determined by outside experts with the power to define them, rather than by the women themselves. This researcher began with an assumption that women in the sex industry might experience scholarly and policy-related discourses about them as stigmatizing and limiting and that it would be useful for them to have the opportunity to introduce their own understandings in to the literature. The present study, therefore, was designed to facilitate such an effort, through the development of a phenomenologically-oriented interview with ten women with past or present experience in the sex industry. For the purposes of the present study, this researcher selected an overarching term, "the sex industry," to describe the larger system or context in which participants worked, or had previously worked, one that would be acceptable to participants and that could be inclusive of the range of women's experiences in the sex industry. Of the numerous terms in the literature describing the sexual activities in the sex industry, the most commonly found ones, which the researcher used to inform the questions in the present study are: "prostitution," "sex trafficking," and "sex work." An analysis of the participants' responses revealed the five major themes: the use of language; societal attitudes towards the sex industry; thoughts about criminalizing or abolishing versus decriminalizing or legalizing the sex industry; whether participants saw entry into the sex industry as a matter of choice, coercion, or a mix of the two; and effects of "the life" on participants and their families. Participants offered a range of rich and nuanced, often affectively-laden descriptions of their preferred language, their thoughts about others' language about the sex industry and the women in that industry, and their complex experiences in the industry.

ISBN: 9781369332834Subjects--Topical Terms:

524863
Clinical psychology.

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