Professor Sophie Day MA PhD
Department of Anthropology
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
London
SE14 6NW
Research interests
Professor Sophie Day has carried out fieldwork in Ladakh, North India and in London, UK focusing largely on medical anthropology. She has recently completed a restudy of sex work in London (supported by the Wellcome Trust), and a European project on HIV prevention among prostitutes (supported by the European Commission, see www.europap.net). During this period, she has been interested more generally in the anthropology of marginal groups and concepts of temporality. She has worked on various aspects of sexual health including risk, HIV and occupational norms and earlier carried out research on spirit possession, gender and religion in Buddhist Ladakh.
Selected publications
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'Wolfenden 50: revisiting state policy and the politics of sex work in the UK'. In Demanding Sex: Critical Reflections on the Regulation of Prostitution (eds.) Vanessa Munro, Marina Della Giusta, Ashgate. |
| 'Visions of Ladakh: Nicola Grist, 19 April 1957 - 26 August 2004'. In Modern Ladakh: Anthropological Perspectives on Continuity and Change, M. van Beek and F. Pirie (eds.), Leiden, Brill. | |
| 2007 | 'Threading time in the biographies of sex workers'. In Ghosts of Memory: Essays on Remembrance and Relatedness, J Carsten (ed.), Oxford, Blackwell. |
| With K. Cooper K, Green A, Ward H. 'Maids, Migrants and Occupational Health in the London Sex Industry'. Anthropology and Medicine 2007; 14 (1): 41-53. | |
| On the Game: Women and Sex Work. London: Pluto Press. (Awarded the 2007 Eileen Basker Prize, and the Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems (RAI). | |
| 2006 | 'What happens to women who sell sex? Report of a unique occupational cohort' in Sexually Transmitted Infections;82;413-417 (with H. Ward) |
| 2004 | Sex work, Mobility and Health in Europe. eds S Day, H Ward. London: Kegan Paul. pp. 281 ISBN: 0-7103-0942-2 (see Contents page [pdf]) |
| 'Declining prevalence of STI in the London sex industry, 1985 to 2002' in Sexually Transmitted Infections; 80(5);374-379 (with H. Ward, A. Green, K. Cooper and JN Weber) | |
| 2003 | 'Secret enterprise: market activities in London sex workers', in Workers and narratives of survival in Europe: The management of precariousness at the end of the XXth century, A. Procoli (ed.). SUNY Press |
| 2001 | 'Biological Symptoms of Social Unease: the Stigma of Infertility in London Sex Workers', in Managing Reproductive Life: Cross-Cultural Themes in Fertility and Sexuality, S. Tremayne (ed.). NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp.85-103. |
| 2000 | 'A prospective social and molecular investigation of gonococcal transmission', in The Lancet; 356: 1812-1817 (with H. Ward, C.A. Ison, I. Martin, A.C. Ghani, G.P. Garnett, G. Bell, G. Kinghorn, and J.N. Weber). |
| 'The Politics of Risk Among London Prostitutes', in Risk Revisited. pp 29- 58. Pat Caplan (ed). Pluto: London. | |
| 1999 | 'Risky business: health and safety in the sex industry over a 9 year period', in Sexually Transmitted Infections; 75:340-343 (with H. Ward and J. Weber). |
| Lilies of the Field: Marginal People Who Live for the Moment, eds Sophie Day, Evthymios Papataxiarchis, & Michael Stewart. (USA: Westview) pp.260 | |
| 1998 | 'Sexual Networks: The Integration of Social and Genetic Data', in Social Science and Medicine. 47(12):1991-1992. |
