The idea of prostitution / Sheila Jeffreys.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jeffreys, Sheila.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prostitution.

Sexual ethics.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 398 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

North Melbourne : Spinifex, 1997.

Summary:

There are (at least) two competing views on prostitution: Prostitution as a legitimate and acceptable form of employment, freely chosen by women and Men's use of prostitution as a form of degrading the women and causing grave psychological damage. In The Idea of Prostitution Sheila Jeffreys explores these sharply contrasting views. She examines the changing concept of prostitution from White Slave Traffic of the nineteenth century to its present status as legal. The book includes discussion of the varieties of prostitution such as: the experience of male prostitutes; the uses of women in pornography; and the role of military brothels compared with slavery and rape in marriage. Sheila Jeffreys explodes the distinction between forced" and free"prostitution, and documents the expanding international traffic in women. The author examines the claims of the prostitutes' rights movement and the sex industry, while supporting prostituted women,

Contents:

CHAPTER 1. The traffic in women, feminism and the league of nations

CHAPTER 2. The revolt of the johns: prostitution and the sexual revolution

CHAPTER 3. Normalising prostitution: the prostitutes' rights movement

CHAPTER 4. Homosexuality and prostitution

CHAPTER 5. Prostitution as "choice"

CHAPTER 6. Just a job like any other? prostitution as "work"

CHAPTER 7. 'Why cars? who's driving?' prostitution and the theorising of sexuality

CHAPTER 8. Prostitution as "sex"

CHAPTER 9. Prostitution as male sexual violence

CHAPTER 10. Sexual violence, feminist human rights theory and the omission of prostitution

CHAPTER 11. Trafficking, prostitution and human rights

CONCLUSION: Universalising prostitution.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-74219-090-1

1-74219-088-X

OCLC:

476232821