The Idea of Prostitution

Bib ID:
8673838
Format:
Book
Author:
Sheila, Jeffreys
Online Access:
National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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Edition:
1.
Access Conditions:
National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
Description:
  • Melbourne : Spinifex Press, 2008
  • North Geelong, Victoria : Spinifex Press, 2008
  • 1 online resource (409 pages)
File Characteristics:
text file EPUB 479KB
ISBN:
  • 1742194273
  • 9781742194271
Summary:

S prostitution a job like any other or does it cause grave psychological damage? Ain in-depth examination of the 'forced' and 'free' arguments about prostitutionI.

Full contents:
  • BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; DEDICATION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 the traffic in women, feminism and the league of nations; Did the White Slave Traffic exist?; Trafficking and international law up to 1914; Trafficking at the League of Nations; What was the traffic in women?; The feminist analysis; The prevention of prostitution; Woman-blaming; Pursuit of the equal moral standard: tactical limitations; CHAPTER 2 the revolt of the johns: prostitution and the sexual revolution; Sexology; Constructing the sexuality of prostitution.
  • Prostitution and the construction of sexualityCHAPTER 9 prostitution as male sexual violence; Definitions; The power of naming; Unpaid violence in prostitution; Connection between childhood sexual abuse and prostitution; Prostitution is commercial sexual violence; Varieties of sexual violence in prostitution; Sexual harassment; Effects of prostitution and sexual violence; Dissociation; CHAPTER 10 sexual violence, feminist human rights theory and the omission of prostitution; Scepticism about rights; The feminist challenge to the concept of international human rights.
  • Prostitution in lesbian politicsCHAPTER 5 prostitution as "choice"; The idea of choice in liberal theory; Choice as consent in prostitution; Blaming the victim; Sexual and reproductive liberalism and choice; Choice and women's agency: a post-modern approach; Victimism; The limitations on choice; Believing women; Beyond choice: understanding oppression; CHAPTER 6 just a job like any other? prostitution as "work"; What kind of work is prostitution?; The dignity of work?; Prostitution as an equal contractual arrangement; What characteristics does prostitution share with slavery?
  • Prostitution is a construction of male supremacyA profound experience of the body; The implications of accepting prostitution as work; Prostitution is not just a job like any other; CHAPTER 7 'why cars? who's driving?' prostitution and the theorising of sexuality; Essentialism; Social construction; The sexual politics of meaninglessness: symbolic interactionism and post-structuralism; Radical feminism; Equal opportunities feminism; CHAPTER 8 prostitution as "sex"; Prostitution and male sexuality; Prostitution as "sex" for women; Stigma; Sexual intercourse; Pornography and prostitution.
  • The history of prostitutionRehabilitating Victorian prostitution; The sociology of prostitution; Prostitution and sexual freedom; CHAPTER 3 normalising prostitution: the prostitutes' rights movement; Birth of the prostitutes' rights movement; International organising; A queer perspective; The feminist controversy; Hostility to feminism; Prostitution performance art: public relations for the sex industrialists; CHAPTER 4 homosexuality and prostitution; Sexual minorities; Differences between male and female prostitution; Transsexual prostitution; Gay male defence of pornography.
Notes:
  • Human rights and violence against women.
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Print version record
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