1st Edition
Digitally Mediated Narratives of Sexual Harassment Perspectives from the Sex Work Industry
By Evelin Nikolova
Copyright 2027
200 Pages
by
Routledge
This monograph uses critical discourse analysis to examine warning posts shared within an online community of self-identified escorts in the UK. Combining the discourse-historical approach with the narrative practice paradigm it examines how escorts position clients and themselves across three levels: as characters within stories, as members of a professional community, and in relation to broader... Read more
1.Introduction, 2. Sexual Harassment and sex work: historical and theoretical perspectives, 3. Narrative analysis in CDS: Combining the discourse-historical approach with the narrative practice approach, 4. Researching an online community of escorts, 5. Digital narratives about problematic/dangerous clients in an online community of self-identified escorts, 6. Rethinking workplace sexual harassment in sex work, 7. Conclusion, Reference list, Index
Biography
Evelin Nikolova is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK, and an Academic Coordinator of summer programmes at Lancaster University. She received her PhD in Linguistics from Lancaster University, UK.
