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PROSTITUTION

PORNIGRAPHICATION OF CULTURE

PORNOGRPAHY

WAR, MILITARISATION AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

SEX TOURISM

TRAFFICKING

RACE

PROSTITUTION                                                                                                                      RETURN TO TOP

 

Barry, Kathleen (1995). The Prostitution of Sexuality. New York: New York University Press.

Carter, Vednita “Breaking Free in Minnesota” in Donna M Hughes and Claire Roche (Eds.) (1999) Making the Harm Visible: The Global Exploitation of Women and Girls – Speaking Out and Providing Services. Kingston: Rhode Island, February 1999.

Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (Updated Jan. 2006) ‘Good Practices for Targeting the Demand for Prostitution and Trafficking’ – Available at www.catwinternational.org

Dorchen A. Leidholdt Demand and the Debate (2004) Available at www.catwinternational.org

Ekberg, Gunilla ‘The Swedish Law that Prohibits the Purchase of Sexual Services: Best Practices for Prevention of Prostitution and Trafficking in Human Beings’ Violence Against Women 2004 10: 1187-1218. Also available at www.catwinternational.org

Farley, Melissa – research on prostitution, violence and trauma available at: www.prostitutionresearch.com

Farley, Melissa ‘“Bad for the Body, Bad for the Heart”: Prostitution Harms Women Even if Legalized or Decriminalized’ Violence Against Women 2004 10: 1087-1125. Also available at www.catwinternational.org

Farley, Melissa (Ed.) Prostitution, Trafficking and Traumatic Stress. Binghamton: Haworth.

Farley, Melissa. Unequal. Available at www.catwinternational.org

Giobbe, Evelina (1990). ‘Confronting the Liberal Lies about Prostitution’. In Dorchen Leidholdt and Janice Raymond (eds.) The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism. New York: Pergamon Press.

Giobbe, Evelina (1991). ‘Prostitution: Buying the Right to Rape’. In Ann Wolpert Burgess (ed.) Rape and Sexual Assault III. A Research Handbook. New York.

Jeffreys, Sheila (1997). The Idea of Prostitution. Melbourne: Spinifex Press.

Jeffreys, Sheila. (2000b) ‘Challenging the Child/Adult Distinction in Theory and Practice in Prostitution.’ International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2 (3), 359-379.

Jõe-Cannon, Ilvi (Ed), and the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (2006) Primer on the Male Demand for Prostitution – available at www.catwinternational.org.

Raymond, Janice G ‘Sex Trafficking is Not “Sex Work”’ Published in the Spring, 2005 (Vol. XXVI, No. 1) issue of Conscience. Available at www.catwinternational.org

Raymond, Janice G ‘Prostitution on Demand: Legalizing the Buyers as Sexual Consumers’ Violence Against Women 2004 10: 1156-1186. Also available at www.catwinternational.org

Raymond, Janice G. ‘Guest Editor’s Introduction’ Violence Against Women 2004 10: 1083-1086. Also available at www.catwinternational.org

Reanda, Laura. ‘Prostitution as a Human Rights Question: Problems and Prospects of United Nations Action’. Human Rights Quarterley, Vol. 13, No. 2 (May, 1991), pp. 202-228.

Russell, Diana E.H (1993a). Against Pornography: The Evidence of Harm. Berkeley, CA: Russell Publications.

Sullivan, M & S. Jeffreys ‘Legalising Prostitution is Not the Answer: The Example of Victoria, Australia’ Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, Australia and the USA. Available at www.catwinternational.org

Sullivan, Mary ‘What Happens When Prostitution Becomes Work? An Update on Legalisation of Prostitution in Australia.’ Coalition Against Trafficking in Women Australia (2005) – available at www.catwinternational.org

Winter, Bronwyn, Denise Thompson and Sheila Jeffreys (2002). ‘The UN Approach to Harmful Traditional Practices: Some Conceptual Problems.’ International Feminist Journal of Politics, 4 (1 April), 72-94.

 

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Jeffreys, Sheila (2005). Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West. London and New York: Routledge.

Dines, Gail & Robert Jensen “Pornography in a Pornographic Culture: Eroticizing Domination and Subordination”, in Rebecca Ann Lind (Ed.) (2004) Race/Gender/Media; Considerin Diversity Across Audiences, Content and Producers. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Dina, Anette “The Mainstreaming of Pornography in Mass Culture” Third Baltic Sea Women’s Conference on Women and Democracy, Tallin, February 13 2003. Available at: http://www.nikk.uio.no/arrangementer/konferens/tallin03/sorensen_e.html

 

PORNOGRAPHY                                                                                                               RETURN TO TOP

 

Barry, Kathleen (1979). Female Sexual Slavery. Englewood Cliffs: NJ: Prentice Hall.

Dines, Gail & Robert Jensen & Ann Russo. (1998). Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality. New York: Routledge.

Dines, Gail “From Fantasy to Reality: Unmasking the Pornography Industry” in Robin Morgan (Ed.) (2003) Sisterhood is Forever: The Women’s Anthology for a New Millennium. New York: Washington Square Press.

Dworkin, Andrea. (1979) Pornography: Men Possessing Women. New York: Pedigree Books

Dworkin, Andrea & Catharine A MacKinnon (1998). Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women’s Equality. Minneapolis: Organising Against Pornography

MacKinnon, Catharine A (1989) Towards a Feminist Theory of the State. Boston, MA: Harvard University Press.

MacKinnon, Catharine A & Andrea Dworkin (Eds.) In Harm’s Way: The Pornography and Civil Rights Hearings. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Russell, Diana (Ed.) (1993) Making Violence Sexy: Feminist Views on Pornography. Buckingham, England: Open University Press, 1992.

Russell, Diana E.H (1998) Dangerous Relationships: Pornography, Misogyny, and Rape. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications

 

WAR, MILITARISATION AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN                      RETURN TO TOP

 

Hicks, George (1994). The Comfort Women. New York: W.W Norton.

Moon, Katharine (1997). Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S-Korea Relations. New York: Columbia University Press.

Stiglmayer, Alexandra (Ed.) (1994) Mass Rape: The War Against Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Yoshiaki, Yoshimi (1995). Comfort Women. New York: Columbia University Press.

 

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN                                                                                               RETURN TO TOP

 

Brownmiller, Susan. (1975) Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape. London: Secker and Warburg.

Copelon, Rhonda (1994b). Intimate Terror: Understanding Domestic Violence as Torture. In Rebecca J Cook (Ed.) (1994a) Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Dalla, Rochelle L, Yan Xia and Heather Kennedy (2003). ‘You Just Give Them What They Want and Pray They Don’t Kill You’. Violence Against Women, 9 (11) 1367-1394.

Hester, Marianne, Liz Kelly and Jill Radford (eds.) (1996) Women, Violence and Male Power: Feminist Activism, Research and Practice. Buckingham, Philadelphia: Open University Press.

Itzin, Catherine (Ed) (1992) Pornography: Women, Violence and Civil Liberties. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press.

 

SEX TOURISM                                                                                                  RETURN TO TOP

 

Davidson, Julia O’Connell (1994 July 8-10). British Sex Tourists in Thailand. Paper presented to the Women’s Studies Network Annual Conference, Portsmouth. Preprinted in M. Maynard and J. Purvis (Eds.) (1995) (Hetero)Sexual Politics. London: Taylor and Francis

Jeffreys, Sheila ‘Sex Tourism: Do Women Do It Too?’ Leisure Studies, Volume 22, Number 3, July 2003 pp. 223-238.

 

TRAFFICKING                                                                                                                            RETURN TO TOP

 

Aghatise, Esohe ‘Trafficking for Prostitution in Italy: Possible Effects of Government Proposals for Legalization of Brothels’ Violence Against Women 2004 10: 1126-1155. Also available at www.catwinternational.org

Kelly, Liz. ‘The Wrong Debate: Reflections on why force is not the key issue with respect to trafficking in women for sexual exploitation’. Feminist Review. London: 2003, Vol. 73 issue 1 pp 139-144

Hughes, Donna M. Pimps and Predators on the Internet – Globalizing Sexual Exploitation of Women and Children. Available at http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/pprep.htm

Monzini, Paola. Sex traffic: prostitution, crime, and exploitation. Translated by Patrick Camiller. London ; New York : Zed ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Stone, Anya & Martina Vandenberg. ‘How the Sex Trade Becomes a Slave Trade: The Trafficking of Women to Israel’. Middle East Report, no. 211, Trafficking and Transiting: New Perspectives on Labor Migration (Summer, 1999), pp. 36-38

 

RACE                                                                                                                                          RETURN TO TOP

 

Cowan, G. & R. Campbell “Racism and Sexism in Interracial Pornography: A Content Analysis” Psychology of Women Quarterly, 18 pp 323-338

Forna, A ‘Pornography and Racism: Sexualising Oppression and Inciting Hatred’ in C. Itzin (Ed.) Women, Violence and Civil Liberties: A Radical New View. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.