Street sex workers' discourse : realizing material change through agential choice / by Jill McCracken.

New York : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Ferancis Group, 2013.

xxxvi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

1st edition.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of figures -- Note on the transcriptions -- Preface: telling our stories : street-based sex work -- Acknowledgments -- Quotidian rhetoric creates meaning through collage -- Who is the victim : the neighborhood or the woman? -- Is she a criminal, a victim, or a victim of the criminal justice system? -- "An opportunity to change" : responsibility and choice -- Systemic violence perpetuates victim status -- Releasing agential choice from cages of oppression -- Appendix A: Participants -- Appendix B: Research process and layers of data -- Appendix C: Number of times terms included in newspaper and participant interviews corpora -- Notes -- References -- Index.