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- W2486147617 abstract "In this chapter I explore the meanings that different actors, in a particular ethnographic setting, attach to the notion of an individual who is at once a man and aprostitute’s client.1 I consider the interdependency of the two terms, and how theirrelationship often verges on the parasitic, while each simultaneously pushes theboundaries of meaning of the other. This contested space for meaning relates to thepotency of both concepts. Historically in western thought, the hegemony of discourses of men/‘maleness’ and of men/‘clientness’ are such that they are both oftentaken for granted and treated as synonymous rather than being openly articulated asmen/maleness and men/clientness.Maleness often hijacks personhood, thereby precluding the latter as a sharedspace for women and children. With clientness, the reverse process occurs. Textualand popular discourses of prostitution are generally negative discourses; not surprisingly, they are mostly discourses about women prostitutes. Precisely because ofthe hegemony of male/maleness discourses, (male) clientness is often given a privileged back seat, leaving women prostitutes up front with only the faintest whiffof an idea that clients exist as well.Slowly, this situation is beginning to change. The occasional feminist voicespeaks out, exposing clients (for example, McCleod 1982) or deconstructing‘masculinity’, as in this volume. However, the general outlook is bleak. Anthropological and sociological studies of ‘masculinity’ bring the concept of ‘maleness’ tothe fore; the paradox is that male discourses occupy a privileged status and ‘masculinity’ studies go some way towards reinforcing this. Some of them are critical, butmany are not. And most texts on prostitution, when they mention clients, presentthem en masse, precluding a contextualized analysis of who these men are andwhere their responsibilities lie.My chapter aims to redress this situation and examine men and/as clients in oneparticular setting. It points to the plurality of discourses regarding the notions ‘man’and ‘client’. Male selves are messier than many studies of ‘masculinity’ would liketo acknowledge, and so too are client selves, often stereotyped and essentialized intexts on prostitution. There are, of course, no observable hegemonic discourses inthis ethnographic setting. Patterns do emerge, but they are at once informed bypowerful counter-patterns – hence discourses conflict." @default.
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- W2486147617 date "2016-12-16" @default.
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- W2486147617 title "Missing masculinity?: Prostitutes’ clients in Alicante, Spain" @default.
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