The Times Square Hustler Male Prostitution in New York City

Subjects:

• Sociology » Urban Studies
• Popular Culture » Popular Culture (General)
• Sociology » Sociology (General)

Reviews:

• Appropriate for upper-division undergraduate students of sociology of deviance.
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  Choice
• Drawing on months of field observation and 35 unstructured interviews, McNamara makes an important contribution to our knowledge about sex workers, subcultural life, and social deviance in general. The existing literature on male hustlers largely predates the AIDS pandemic and the arrival of crack cocaine, which together have altered the professional landscape for sex workers....McNamara documents these changes with clarity, updating the existing literature, but goes further to achieve the mark of truly fine ethnography: He weaves an engrossing tale from the life histories he analyzes.
  —Contemporary Sociology

• Endorsement From
  Kai Erikson
  
  
  Professor of Sociology
  
  
  Yale University: McNamara has ventured out into parts of the social world rarely visited by social scientists, and he has returned with a remarkably interesting and perceptive account of a way of life we know almost nothing about. A real achievement.
• Endorsement From Albert J. Reiss, Jr.
  
  
  William Graham Sumner Professor of Sociology Emeritus
  
  
  Yale University: McNamara enhances our understanding of community by showing us how male prostitution shapes and is shaped by community structure, organization, and patterns of interaction.
• Endorsement From Dennis Jay Kenney, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, University of Nebraska at Omaha
  Director of Research, Police Executive Research Forum: Bob McNamara has done a remarkable job of capturing the character and complexity of the street life of Times Square hustlers--a difficult and hard to reach deviant environment to be sure. Throughout, he not only tells their fascinating story, but goes further to examine the relations between hustlers, the hustled, and those who facilitate the entire process. A well-written account, his result should be read by all who are interested in the subject, the difficulties of ethnographic research, or the interactions between deviance (crime) and the environment in which it occurs.

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Hustling and the Marketplace
• The Scene
• The Cast
• A Day in the Life
• Cracking the Code
• Aiding and Abetting
• Riding out the Storm
• Epilogue
• Selected Bibliography
• Index