ISBN:
1875559655
,
9781742190907
,
9781875559657
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 398 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Idea of Prostitution
DDC:
306.74
Keywords:
Prostitution
;
Feminist theory
;
Sexual ethics
;
Feminist theory
;
Prostitution
;
Sexual ethics
;
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Abstract:
There are (at least) two competing views on prostitution: Prostitution as a legitimate and acceptable form of employment, freely chosen by women and Men's use of prostitution as a form of degrading the women and causing grave psychological damage. In The Idea of Prostitution Sheila Jeffreys explores these sharply contrasting views. She examines the changing concept of prostitution from White Slave Traffic of the nineteenth century to its present status as legal. The book includes discussion of the varieties of prostitution such as: the experience of male prostitutes; the uses of women in porn
Description / Table of 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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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?
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Human rights and violence against women
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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