Making sex work : a failed experiment with legalised prostitution /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Sullivan, Mary Lucille, 1950-
Imprint:	North Melbourne, Vic., Australia : Spinifex, 2007.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 413 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Prostitution -- Australia -- Victoria. Prostitution -- Government policy -- Australia -- Victoria. Prostitution -- Economic aspects -- Australia -- Victoria. Prostitutes -- Australia -- Victoria. Prostitutes. Prostitution. Prostitution -- Economic aspects. Prostitution -- Government policy. Victoria. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11209076

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ISBN:	1876756608 9781876756604 9781742191249 174219124X 9781742194394 1742194397
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-402) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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 industry.
Other form:	Print version: Sullivan, Mary Lucille, 1950- Making sex work. North Melbourne, Vic., Australia : Spinifex, 2007

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Setting the Framework: Prostitution in the 21st Century
Chapter 2. Institutionalising Men's Rights to Women's Bodies: Legalisation (1982-1997)
Chapter 3. From Prostitutes' Rights to Sex Industry Advocates: The History of the Prostitutes' Collective of Victoria
Chapter 4. Living Off the Earnings of Prostitution: Sex Industry Expansion and Its Beneficiaries
Chapter 5. Unregulated and Illegal: Clandestine Prostitution Under Victoria's 'Model Legislation
Chapter 6. Victoria's 'Safe Sex Agenda': Occupational Health and Safety for the Sex Industry
Chapter 7. Rape and Violence as Occupational Hazards
Chapter 8. Making Men's Demand Visible
Glossary
List of Abbreviations
Table of Legislation
Bibliography
Index

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