Parenting and money making: Sex work and women’s choices in urban Uganda
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Date
2011
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A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
Abstract
Based upon detailed life histories of 96 Ugandan sex workers, this article documents the pathways women take into prostitution through marital separation and the subsequent need to support children via rural-urban migration to obtain wage work in Kampala. The money women receive from selling sex and other work helped them to independently pay for their housing children’s school fees, and food for their family without receiving support from partners. In their narratives women portrayed themselves as mothers, wives, partners, friends and workers with self-esteem and the hope of improvement in their lives through their own efforts.
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Parenting, Money making, Sex work, Women, Urban Uganda
Citation
Zalwango, F., Eriksson, L., Seeley, J., Nakamanya, S., Vandepitte, J., & Grosskurth, H. (2010). Parenting and money making: sex work and women's choices in urban Uganda. Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies, 8. ISSN: 1545-6196