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Author Sullivan, Mary Lucille

Title Making Sex Work : a Failed Experiment with Legalised Prostitution
Published Chicago : Spinifex Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (431 pages)
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter One: Setting the Framework: Prostitution in the 21st Century; Chapter Two: Institutionalising Men's Rights to Women's Bodies: Legalisation (1982-1997); Chapter Three: From Prostitutes' Rights to Sex Industry Advocates: The History of the Prostitutes' Collective of Victoria; Chapter Four: Living Off the Earnings of Prostitution: Sex Industry Expansion and Its Beneficiaries; Chapter Five: Unregulated and Illegal: Clandestine Prostitution Under Victoria's 'Model Legislation'
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-402) and index
Notes Print version record
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.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781742191249
174219124X
9781742194394
1742194397