| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 445 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
With its mix of personal stories, theory, research, testimony and accounts of current activism, 'Not For Sale' will be an invaluable resource for those seeking to inform themselves about the realities of the 'sex business' and will serve to strengthen and broaden feminist resistance to pornography and prostitution. |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Permissions; Introduction; Organization and contents; Acknowledgements; Part One: Understanding Systems of Prostitution; How prostitution works; Introduction; The johns; Prostitution buffs; Customer streams; The pimps; Where the workers come from; Gender differences; Society's role; Conclusion; References; Confronting pornography: Some conceptual basics; Porn takes over; 'It looks like violence but it's not'; Conceptual basics; 'What can we do?'; References; Blow bangs and cluster bombs: The cruelty of men and Americans; Blow bangs; Cluster bombs. |
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Patriarchy and empirePornography and war; Choices; Other choices; Not blow bangs; Not cluster bombs; Justice and self-interest; References; The use of new communications and information technologies for sexual exploitation of women and children; Introduction; New and old technologies combined; New technologies for sexual exploitation; Technologies for anonymity and disguise; Technologies of cyber hijacking; Conclusion; References; In and out: A survivor's memoir of stripping; Slow suicide; Stripping as prostitution; Then and now; Selling my Self; Getting out; Staying out; Free to choose. |
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Moving onPornography, prostitution, and women's human rights in Japan; Progress; Counter flow; The harms of pornography in Japan; The harms of prostitution in Japan; Legal approaches; A new movement; References; Prostitution and the new slavery; King Kong and the white woman: Hustler magazine and the demonization of black masculinity; From 'The Birth of A Nation' to 'Black Studs'; 'F*** you if you can't take a joke': Marketing the Hustler cartoon; Black men and white women: The white man under siege; A new ending to an old story; References; Nobody's concubine. |
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Prostitution in Vancouver: Pimping women and the colonization of First NationsIntroduction; Colonization of Canada's First Nations; Colonization, racism, and prostitution; Prostitution and globalization; Post-colonial violence among First Nations communities; Prostitution in Canada today; Interviews with women prostituting in Vancouver; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; The journey home; Pornography, prostitution, and a beautiful and tragic recent history; Part Two: Resisting the Sexual New World Order; Prostitution for everyone: Feminism, globalisation, and the 'sex' industry. |
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I. Uphill work: Feminist opposition to the traffic in womenII. There's never a Leftist around when you need one; III. Corporations R Us?; IV. Neoliberalism: meet the new boss; V. Economies of scale; VI. Metawhores: Whore as metaphor, prostitution as market model; VII. Supply and demand; VIII. Allies and prospects; Notes; Further reading; Addendum; Left Labor in bed with the sex industry; Background; Initial response; Feminism in action; Conclusion; Resisting the promotion of prostitution in Canada: A view from the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Pornography -- Social aspects.
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Pornography -- Social aspects. |
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Sex industry.
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Sex industry. |
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Women -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Social conditions. |
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Prostitution.
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Prostitution. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Pornography. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Female prostitution. |
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Prostitution. |
| Added Author |
Whisnant, Rebecca.
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Stark, Christine, 1968-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Not for sale. North Melbourne, Vic. : Spinifex Press, 2004 9781876756499 (DLC) 2005360380 (OCoLC)57139681 |
| ISBN |
9781742193724 (electronic book) |
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1742193722 (electronic book) |
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9781742194455 |
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1742194451 |
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1876756497 |
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