The Meaning of the Purchase: Desire, Demand and the Commerce of Sex

Ethnography

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 389-420

  Bernstein, Elizabeth ^a  

^a Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

commodification; desire; gentrification; intimacy; masculinity; prostitution; sex work

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996263072     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14661380122230975     Document Type: Article

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