Summary Of Negotiating Stigma By Chris Bruckert
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“Negotiating Stigma” by Chris Bruckert gives us a small insight into the stigma that women in the sex worker trade, mostly the dancers, face. He argues that they can face many different stigmas within their trade that not only effects how they perceive their sense of self but how other’s perceive them as human being or rather how they perceive them as just “prostitutes”. He argues that these women, the dancers, are negotiating or managing their stigma within their own community amongst each other but are they really choosing to live within these stigmas? Are they living and negotiating between these stigmas for survival within the profession? These dancers, “rather than challenging stereotypes, these dancers espouse an understanding that