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three excellent articles: on trafficking and prostitution

sometimes it is just good remember the texts and arguments that were formative in creating the political space of x:talk…
here are three such text written by Ms Jo Doezema - a sex worker rights activists / academic
1) Loose Women or Lost Women? The re-emergence of the myth of ‘white slavery’ in contemporary discourses of ‘trafficking [...]

New Directions in Sex Research: examples from CAMBODIA

DEPTS OF MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION, SOCIOLOGY AND EDUCATION, GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE
ESRC YOUNG WOMEN, SEXUALITIES AND VULNERABILITIES PROGRAMME
5TH MAY 2010, RHB, ROOM 308, 3:30- 6PM,
FOLLOWED BY DRINKS IN THE BAR.
ALL WELCOME.
 
Please join us at Goldsmiths College, London, for an afternoon of presentations and dialogue focused on past and contemporary ‘new directions’ in sex research with examples from [...]

Re-public Journal - Gendering border crossings

Online journal *Re-public’s* has just published the second part of the special issue *”Gendering border crossings**”*. Ava Caradonna, from the xtalk project had an article in the first part of this special issue.
Contributions include:
Eithne Luibhéid and Bridget Anderson - Gendering borders: An exchange<http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=471>
Rutvica Andrijasevic - Gendered migration and differentiated inclusion<http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=470>
Mireille Miller-Young - Can the ho’s [...]

WORKING GIRLS: PROSTITUTES, THEIR LIFE AND SOCIAL CONTROL

by Roberta Perkins 
An analysis of prostitution laws throughout Australia are presented in this book as Roberts discusses the need for the decriminalisation of prostitution. Detailed findings from a survey of Sydney prostitutes and excerpts from in-depth interviews are included. Perkins also reviews a vast literature on the subject of prostitution.
Go to the publication

ISBN 0 642 [...]

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