The Idea of Prostitution

by Jeffreys, Sheila

• ISBN13: 9781876756673
• ISBN10: 1876756675
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-01
• Publisher: Spinifex Press

Summary

In The Idea of Prostitution. Sheila Jeffreys explores these two contrasting views. She examines the changing concept of prostitution from White Slave Traffic of the nineteenth century to its present status as a legal business.

Author Biography

Sheila Jeffreys is the author of Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution, Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West, and Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective. She is a founding member of the Australian branch of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATWA) and a professor of sexual and international feminist politics at the University of Melbourne.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
the traffic in women, feminism and the league of nations	p. 7
the revolt of the Johns: prostitution and the sexual revolution	p. 35
normalising prostitution: the prostitute's rights movement	p. 65
homosexuality and prostitution	p. 92
prostitution as "choice"	p. 128
just a job like any other? prostitution as "work"	p. 161
"why cars? who's driving?" prostitution and the theorising of sexuality	p. 196
prostitution as "sex"	p. 213
prostitution as male sexual violence	p. 242
sexual violence, feminist human rights theory and the omission of prostitution	p. 275
trafficking, prostitution and human rights	p. 306
Conclusion universalising prostitution	p. 339
Bibliography	p. 349
Index	p. 373
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