Susan Dewey is Assistant Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and adjunct in International Studies at the University of Wyoming. She is the author of Making Miss India Miss World: Constructing Gender, Power, and the Nation in Postliberalization India and Hollow Bodies: Institutional Responses to Sex Trafficking in Armenia, Bosnia, and India.

"Dewey contributes to a growing wave of qualitative research on the sex industry." Choice "Fresh... As keen as it is thorough... Neon Wasteland is a provocative, highly readable analysis." -- Kate W. Read & Yasmina Katsulis, Arizona State University Tempe Social & Cultural Geography

• Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Feminized Labor and the Classed Body 3. Everyday Survival Strategies 4. Being a Good Mother in a "Bad" Profession 5. Pseudointimacy and Romantic Love 6. Calculating Risks, Surviving Danger 7. Body Work and the Feminization of Poverty 8. Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index

Susan Dewey is Assistant Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and adjunct in International Studies at the University of Wyoming. She is the author of Making Miss India Miss World: Constructing Gender, Power, and the Nation in Postliberalization India and Hollow Bodies: Institutional Responses to Sex Trafficking in Armenia, Bosnia, and India.

"Dewey contributes to a growing wave of qualitative research on the sex industry." Choice "Fresh... As keen as it is thorough... Neon Wasteland is a provocative, highly readable analysis." -- Kate W. Read & Yasmina Katsulis, Arizona State University Tempe Social & Cultural Geography

• Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Feminized Labor and the Classed Body 3. Everyday Survival Strategies 4. Being a Good Mother in a "Bad" Profession 5. Pseudointimacy and Romantic Love 6. Calculating Risks, Surviving Danger 7. Body Work and the Feminization of Poverty 8. Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index

Susan Dewey is Assistant Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and adjunct in International Studies at the University of Wyoming. She is the author of Making Miss India Miss World: Constructing Gender, Power, and the Nation in Postliberalization India and Hollow Bodies: Institutional Responses to Sex Trafficking in Armenia, Bosnia, and India.

"Dewey contributes to a growing wave of qualitative research on the sex industry." Choice "Fresh... As keen as it is thorough... Neon Wasteland is a provocative, highly readable analysis." -- Kate W. Read & Yasmina Katsulis, Arizona State University Tempe Social & Cultural Geography

• Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Feminized Labor and the Classed Body 3. Everyday Survival Strategies 4. Being a Good Mother in a "Bad" Profession 5. Pseudointimacy and Romantic Love 6. Calculating Risks, Surviving Danger 7. Body Work and the Feminization of Poverty 8. Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index