Tricks of the Trade: What Social Workers Can Learn about Female Sex Workers through Dialogue

Qualitative Social Work

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 139-160

  Wahab, Stéphanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

agency; emotional labor; practice; prostitution; qualitative; sex work

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645087530     PISSN: 14733250     EISSN: 17413117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473325004043378     Document Type: Article

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