'As prostitutes, we control our bodies': Perceptions of health and body in the lives of establishment-based female sex workers in Tijuana, Mexico

Culture, Health and Sexuality

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 677-689

  Choudhury, Shonali M ^a  

^a HISPANIC HEALTH COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; HIV AIDS; Mexico; Sex workers; Sexual health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MEXICO; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

ADULT; ANECDOTES AS TOPIC; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MEXICO; PROSTITUTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; WOMEN, WORKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953950790     PISSN: 13691058     EISSN: 14645351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691051003797263     Document Type: Article

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