Youth Homelessness and Survival Sex: Intimate Relationships and Gendered Subjectivities

by Juliet Watson

Book Overview

Survival sex, commonly understood to be the exchange of sex for material support, is a practice that is associated with young homeless women. However, such a narrow definition of survival sex fails to recognise the multiple, complex, and coexisting motivations of young homeless women for engaging in intimate relationships in post-industrial capitalist society.

In Youth Homelessness and Survival Sex, Watson's insightful analysis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367354829
• ISBN13: 9780367354824
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"