Two women, two murders

Rachel Lennon, Pranee Liamputtong

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Abstract

For decades, stigma researchers and activists have used the concept of stigma to understand the myriad ways in which sex workers face socioeconomic exclusion, violence, and other forms of marginalization. Countless researchers across a wide variety of academic fields have built upon Erving Goffman’s original (1963) articulation of this concept by emphasizing stigma’s complex and multidimensional nature to note that stigmatization entails very real adverse effects at both the individual and structural levels in the form of socioeconomic marginalization, institutionalization of discriminatory norms through law and public policy, and adverse health outcomes (Benoit et al. 2018; Evans-Lacko et al. 2012; Hatzenbuehler and Link 2014).
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRoutledge International Handbook of Sex Industry Research
EditorsSusan Dewey, Isabel Crowhurst, Chimaraoke Izugbara
Place of PublicationAbingdon Oxon UK
PublisherRoutledge
Chapter50
Pages516-526
Number of pages11
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9781351133913
ISBN (Print)9780815354123
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes

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