Selling sex : a hidden history of prostitution / Raelene Frances.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frances, Raelene, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prostitution--Australia--History.

Prostitution.

Sex industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 342 pages) : map.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney, NSW : UNSW Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the only such book to be attempted in Australia. It covers over 200 years of history, and includes discussion of sexual exchange in Australia prior to European colonisation. It is relevant to the whole of Australia as well as having a strong international dimension: the content is based on extensive research from archives in all Australian capital cities as well as London and Geneva and draws on oral interviews with women over a period of more than 25 years. It makes extensive use of narratives, individual life stories and the 'voices' of prostitutes to construct an engaging, accessible text."Selling Sex" provides the first comprehensive history of prostitution in Australia from before European colonisation to the present, and situates this history within an international context of labour migration and policy formation. It draws on extensive archival research and interviews to chart the ways in which prostitution contributed not just to women's economic survival but also to broader processes of colonisation and nation-building.

Contents:

1. Introduction

Part 1. Convict society

2. Imperial whoremasters?

3. Damned whores?

Part 2. The frontiers

4. The mines

5. The ports

6. The pastoral stations

Part 3. Late colonial cities and towns

7. Shades of scarlet

8. Of prince and prostitutes

9. The 'problem of prostitution'

10. Status and stigma

Part 4. The new nation

11. White slavers and their enemies

12. The rise of the red-light district

13. From grand brothels to vice queens

14. Crackdown and exclusion

Part 5. Into the present

15. War and peace

16. Global sex and local law

17. Reflecting on prostitution's past.

Notes:

"A UNSW Press Book"

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-74223-038-5

OCLC:

689995556