title: A gap in science's and the media images of people who use drugs and sex workers: research on organizations of the oppressed.
abstract: This paper discusses organizations of the oppressed, such as drug user and sex worker groups, and the images of themselves that they construct. We suggest that analysis of these organizationally-produced collective self-images -frequently overlooked in scholarly research -is crucial to understanding the complex internal dynamics of users' and sex workers' organizations and struggles they engage in when defining their collective (organizational) identities and course of action.
authors.affiliation: 1Jagiellonian University, Institute of Sociology , Kraków , Poland.
authors.forename: Agata
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dziuban
authors.forename: Samuel R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Friedman
mesh_terms: D003146:Communications Media; D055030:Drug Users; D006801:Humans; D009938:Organizations; D012586:Science; D060386:Sex Workers
keywords: drug users’ organizations; images; organizational doctrine; sex work; sex worker organizations; social movements; users’ groups