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Schoolgirls: Embodiment Practices Among Current And Former Sex Workers In Academia, Jennifer Heineman
Schoolgirls: Embodiment Practices Among Current And Former Sex Workers In Academia, Jennifer Heineman
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This dissertation looks at how marginalized people experience embodiment in intellectual spaces. By looking at the experiences of twenty current and former sex workers in academia, I find that individual actors practice two kinds of embodiment, what I label 1) fragmented (consciously separating erotic and intellectual work) and 2) confluent embodiment (making erotic and intellectual work more confluent). I find that embodiment practices change depending on the social context in which they occur. My findings expand the literature on embodiment and sociologies of the body for a more robust and fluid definition of the ways individual actors practice and reflect …