The Dynamics of Male and Female Street Prostitution in Manchester, England

This article examines male street prostitution in Manchester, England, and draws some comparisons to its female counterpart in this city. While the two sectors have some important similarities, we also find significant differences in the physical and social ecology of the places in which they work, in their behavior patterns, and in individuals’ demographics and work experiences. We find that ecological dif- ferences between the male and female markets have a major impact on partici- pants’ work practices, opportunities, and integration into the local community. The data also indicate that it is incorrect to speak of a monolithic male street market or sector in Manchester because sellers shift between settings (street, bar, and escorting), unlike the female street sector. We also find that the males demonstrate more diversity in their repertoires for earning money. The findings have implications for local government policy and for outreach workers who work with these populations.

Exhibition of the art treasures of the United Kingdom, Manchester, 1857.

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Memorials of St. Ann's Church, Manchester, in the last century : an attempt to rectify several popular errors; to which is added a short history of church building and Sunday school work in the same town.

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Report of a committee of the Manchester Statistical Society on the state of education in the Borough of Manchester, in 1834.

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A supplement to Lord Western's letter to Lord John Russell: upon corn laws and commercial distress : with a brief review of the reports of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, on December 1839, and March 1841 : together with an extract from a letter of R. Cobden, Esq., M.P., of the 12th of Sept., and Lord Western's reply.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 32119.

An exposure of the calumnies circulated by the enemies of social order and reiterated by their abettors, against the magistrates and the yeomanry cavalry of Manchester and Salford /

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 22603.

Transactions of the Manchester Statistical Society.

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Studies from the Physiological Laboratory of Owens College, Manchester

Editor: 1891- , W. Stirling.

The Court leet records of the manor of Manchester, from the year 1552 to the year 1686, and from the year 1731 to the year 1846.

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Consumption and the postmodern city

Probes into the consumer culture in the postmodern city through a survey of a population that recently moved into refurbished homes in downtown Manchester, England. Attraction to the middle class of culturally based urban regeneration; Cultural consumption and lifestyle; Sociology of contemporary cultural change.

Letter of condolence

Letter on death of Mrs. Leo in English script on white paper from Ed. P. Nathan

The evolution of genomic imprinting

We explore three possible pathways for the evolution of genomic imprinting. (1) Imprinting may be advantageous in itself when imprinted and unimprinted alleles of a locus confer different phenotypes. If a segment of DNA is imprinted in the gametes of one sex but not in those of the other, it might lead to effects correlated with sexual dimorphism. More fundamentally, in certain organisms, sex determination might have evolved because of imprinting. When imprinting leads to chromosome elimination or inactivation and occurs in some embryos but not in others, two classes of embryos, differing in the number of functional gene copies, would result. A model for sex determination based on inequality in the actual or effective copy-number of particular noncoding, regulatory sequences of DNA has been proposed (Chandra, Proc. natn. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 82. 1165–1169 and 6947–6949, 1985). Maternal control of offspring sex is another possible consequence of imprinting; this would indicate a potential role for imprinting in sex ratio evolution. (2) Genes responsible for imprinting may have pleiotropic effects and they may have been selected for reasons other than their imprinting ability. Lack of evidence precludes further consideration of this possibility. (3) Imprinting could have co-evolved with other traits. For instance, gamete-specific imprinting could lead to a lowered fitness of androgenetic or gynogenetic diploids relative to the fitness of ‘normal’ diploids. This in turn would reinforce the evolution of anisogamy. The reversibility of imprinting raises the possibility of occasional incomplete or improper erasure. If the site of imprinting is the egg – as appears to be the case with the human X (Chandra and Brown, Nature 253. 165–168, 1975) – either improper imprinting or improper erasure could lead to unusual patterns of inheritance (as in the fragile-X syndrome) or fitness effects skipping generations.