Borrowing Privilege: Status Maneuvering among Marginalized Men
| Autor: | Sharon S. Oselin, Kristen Barber |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Sociology and Political Science
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Gender studies Gender Studies Scholarship Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Work (electrical) 050903 gender studies Masculinity 0502 economics and business Sociology 0509 other social sciences 050203 business & management Privilege (social inequality) Sex work media_common |
| Zdroj: | Gender & Society. 33:201-223 |
| ISSN: | 1552-3977 0891-2432 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0891243218823354 |
| Popis: | Research shows people confront social marginalization through work, yet this scholarship largely ignores people working in illicit markets. We address this gap by investigating how and to what end men in street prostitution “borrow” privilege from their more structurally advantaged clients. Drawing from interviews with men of color in street sex work, we show how they “status maneuver” to offset stigmatized identities tied to prostitution and to construct a masculinity that offers a greater sense of social worth within constrained circumstances. These men ironically rely on status differences between themselves and their white, wealthy men clients to undermine their own oppression and to create possibilities for momentary associations with hegemonic masculine privilege. This research shows how barriers between the powerful and powerless are permeable, and how social hierarchies serve as resources to cope with the inequitable conditions and stigma under which some people live and work. |
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