Performing Agency: A Photovoice Project with Women Who Engage in Sex Work

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dc.contributor.authorFitton, Chantelle
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Health Sciences
dc.contributor.supervisorHarrowing, Jean N.
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-20T15:56:42Z
dc.date.available2019-06-20T15:56:42Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.description.abstractSeven women engaged in various types of sex work shared their stories and their art using photovoice to address the question: What are your experiences doing sex work in Lethbridge, Alberta? Participants created specific sex work identities, which provided emotional protection and allowed them to avoid conflict with their other roles such as partner or mother. Participants controlled the level of intimacy they permitted with their clients by distancing themselves through substance use and emotional disengagement, or allowing a certain level of intimacy through deep acting. Participants also enacted agency daily within structural barriers such as stigma, violence, and the criminal justice and social service systems; facilitated or hindered in their actions by these social structures and their individual intersections of race, class, age, ability, and social capital. Recommendations for changes to service provision in Lethbridge, as well as limitations of this research and directions for future research are discussed.en_US
dc.embargoNoen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5419
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.proquest.subjectHealth sciences [0566]en_US
dc.proquest.subjectWomen's studies [0453]en_US
dc.proquest.subjectPublic health [0573]en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Health Sciencesen_US
dc.publisher.facultyHealth Sciencesen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Health Sciences)
dc.subjectIdentityen_US
dc.subjectIntimacy (Psychology)en_US
dc.subjectProstitutionen_US
dc.subjectSocial sciencesen_US
dc.titlePerforming Agency: A Photovoice Project with Women Who Engage in Sex Worken_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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