Sexuality, immorality and the city: Red-light districts and the marginalisation of female street prostitutes

Gender, Place and Culture

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-76

  Hubbard, Phil ^a  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL BELIEF; PROSTITUTES; SOCIAL DISCOURSES; SOCIAL MARGINALISATION;

UK, ENGLAND, WEST MIDLANDS, BIRMINGHAM;

EID: 0031775940     PISSN: 0966369X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09663699825322     Document Type: Article

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