ISBN:
9781349959471
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (378 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.742
Keywords:
Prostitution
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Prostitution
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Abolitionist Movement -- The Beginnings -- Links to the Movement to End Male Violence -- The History -- More Than Condoms and Needles -- The Origins of the Law to Criminalise Punters -- An International Focus on Demand -- The Opposition -- Removing the Mask from the SWR Movement -- From Liberal to Abolitionist -- Abolitionist Feminists Living Under Legalisation/Decriminalisation -- Helping Others See the Problem -- From Prostitution, to Pimping, to Abolition -- Policing and Criminal Sanctions -- 2 The 'Sex Workers' Rights' Movement -- The History -- Prostitution is 'Work' or 'Labour' -- Unionisation -- Cambodia: Fake Unions -- Feminism Is All About Women Having Personal 'Choice' and 'Agency' -- Pimps Redefined as 'Sex Workers' -- 'Trafficking Would Be Bad if It Existed but It Is a Myth Anyway' -- Men Who Attack and Murder Women in Prostitution Are 'Posing as Clients' -- 'Prostitution Is not About Gender Inequality or Patriarchy' -- Discrediting Abolitionists -- The Attack on Abolitionists as Racists and Colonialists -- Abolitionists Don't Listen to 'Sex Workers' -- Sex Work Is Helpful and Liberating to Women Who've Been Sexually Abused -- 'The Nordic Model Puts 'Sex Workers' in More Danger' -- 3 Sanitising the Sex Trade -- The 'Sex Work' Revolution -- The Benevolent Pimp -- Sanitising Use of Language -- The Myths of Health and Safety -- The Erasure of 'Prostitution' and the 'Sex Work' Euphemism -- The Girlfriend Experience -- Trafficking Denial -- Sugar Daddies, not Punters -- Mail-Order Brides -- Sex Surrogacy -- Brothels as Workers' Cooperatives/Safe Houses -- 4 Realities & -- Consequences of Legalisation -- Introduction -- The Disaster of Legalisation -- Holland -- Turkey -- USA -- Germany -- New Zealand.
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