Fallen women and rescued girls: social stigma and media narratives of the sex industry in Victoria, B.C., from 1980 to 2005 *.

From: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology | Date: August 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

This paper compares media portrayals of people who work in the sex industry with these workers' self-reports of their personal backgrounds and experiences of what they do for a living. Our aim is to first, gauge the empirical distance between media depictions and workers' lived reality, and second, to understand how the media contributes to constructing, reproducing and deepening the social stigmas associated with working in the sex industry. We argue that pulling apart the historical and spatial variability of these stigmas and explicating their roots in the meaning-making activities of ...

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