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The Idea of Prostitution.

Explores the idea of men's entitlement to abuse and profit from the abuse of women in prostitution. This work argues that it is important to recognise men's abuse of women in prostitution as a variety of male sexual violence and a violation of women's human rights.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jeffreys, Sheila
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : Spinifex Press, 1997.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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 -- The history of prostitution -- Rehabilitating 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 -- Prostitution in lesbian politics -- CHAPTER 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? 
505 8 |a Prostitution is a construction of male supremacy -- A 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 -- Prostitution and the construction of sexuality -- CHAPTER 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 -- Human rights and violence against women -- Why has prostitution been omitted? -- Military sexual slavery -- The way forward -- CHAPTER 11 trafficking, prostitution and human rights -- The traffic in women today -- 1949 Convention -- The pro-prostitution position on trafficking -- Prostitution and the international human rights community -- The anti-prostitution position on trafficking -- The Convention Against Sexual Exploitation -- Penalising the perpetrators -- CONCLUSION: universalising prostitution -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX. 
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