Making Sex Work : a Failed Experiment with Legalised Prostitution.

Discussing the practicalities of brothels as regular businesses, this work unearths facts about both the legal and illegal sectors. Covering issues such as violence, organised crime, women's health, and mainstream businesses' involvement in the sex trade, it gives an insight into the sex i...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Sullivan, Mary Lucille
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Spinifex Press, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter One: Setting the Framework: Prostitution in the 21st Century; Chapter Two: Institutionalising Men's Rights to Women's Bodies: Legalisation (1982-1997); Chapter Three: From Prostitutes' Rights to Sex Industry Advocates: The History of the Prostitutes' Collective of Victoria; Chapter Four: Living Off the Earnings of Prostitution: Sex Industry Expansion and Its Beneficiaries; Chapter Five: Unregulated and Illegal: Clandestine Prostitution Under Victoria's 'Model Legislation'