Not for Sale Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography

by Stark, Christine; Whisnant, Rebecca

• ISBN13: 9781876756499
• ISBN10: 1876756497
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-01
• Publisher: Spinifex Press

Summary

Including the latest research on prostitution and pornography, this essay anthology shows how the sex industries harm those within them while undermining the possibilities for gender justice, human equality, and stable sexual relationships. From sex industries survivors to social activists and theorists such as Taylor Lee, Adriene Sere, and Kristen Anderberg, this volume asses from a feminist perspective the racism, poverty, militarism, and corporate capitalism of selling sex through strip clubs, brothels, mail-order brides, and child pornography.

Author Biography

Rebecca Whisnant is a visiting assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Dayton. Christine Stark is a feminist writer, artist, speaker, activist, and member of the Minnesota Indian Women's Sexual Assault Coalition.

Table of Contents

Permissions	x
Rebecca Whisnant and Christine Stark
Introduction	xi
PART ONE Understanding systems of prostitution
Joe Parker
How prostitution works	3	(12)
Rebecca Whisnant
Confronting pornography: Some conceptual basics	15	(13)
Robert Jensen
Blow bangs and cluster bombs: The cruelty of men and Americans	28	(10)
Donna Hughes
The use of new communication technologies for sexual exploitation of women and children	38	(18)
Taylor Lee
In and out: A survivor's memoir of stripping	56	(8)
Seiya Morita
Pornography, prostitution, and women's human rights in Japan	64	(21)
Vednita Carter
Prostitution and the new slavery	85	(4)
Gail Dines
King Kong and the white woman: Hustler magazine and the demonization of black masculinity	89	(13)
Chong Kim
Nobody's concubine	102	(4)
Melissa Farley and Jacqueline Lynne
Prostitution in Vancouver: Pimping women and the colonization of first nations	106	(25)
Samantha Emery
The journey home: An interview	131	(6)
Andrea Dworkin
Pornography, prostitution, and a beautiful and tragic recent history	137	(12)
PART TWO Resisting the sexual new world order
D.A. Clarke
Prostitution for everyone: Feminism, globalisation and the 'sex' industry	149	(57)
Joyce Wu
Left Labor in bed with the sex industry	206	(4)
Lee Lakeman, Alice Lee, and Suzanne Jay
Resisting the promotion of prostitution in Canada: A view from the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter	210	(42)
Mary Lucille Sullivan
Can prostitution be safe?: Applying occupational health and safety codes to Australia's legalised brothel prostitution	252	(17)
Adriene Sere
Sex and feminism: Who is being silenced?	269	(6)
Kirsten Anderberg
No more 'Porn Nights'	275	(3)
Christine Stark
Girls to boyz: Sex radical women promoting prostitution, pornography, and sadomasochism	278	(17)
PART THREE Surviving, conceiving, confronting
Margaret A. Baldwin
Strategies of connection: prostitution and feminist politics	295	(11)
Sherry Lee
Short Making hay while the sun shines: The dynamics of strip clubs in the Upper Midwest and the community response	306	(25)
Rus Ervin Funk
What does pornography say about me(n)?: How I became an anti-pornography activist	331	(21)
Ann Simonton and Carol Smith
Who are women in pornography?: A conversation	352	(10)
Jane Caputi
Cuntspeak: Words from the heart of darkness	362	(24)
Sheila Jeffreys
Prostitution as a harmful cultural practice	386	(14)
John Stoltenberg
Pornography and international human rights	400	(10)
Carol Davis
Against their will: Nepal's activist theatre fights girl-trafficking	410	(9)
Leslie R. Wolfe
Fighting the war against sexual trafficking of women and girls	419	(8)
List of contributors	427	(6)
Index	433