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Not for Sale Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography

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ISBN-10: 1876756497

ISBN-13: 9781876756499

Edition: 2004

Authors: Chrisitne Stark, Rebecca Whisnant

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Including the latest research on prostitution and pornography, this essay anthology shows how the sex industries harm those within them while undermining the possibilities for gender justice, human equality, and stable sexual relationships. From sex industries survivors to social activists and theorists such as Taylor Lee, Adriene Sere, and Kristen Anderberg, this volume asses from a feminist perspective the racism, poverty, militarism, and corporate capitalism of selling sex through strip clubs, brothels, mail-order brides, and child pornography.
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Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Publication date: 5/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Christine Stark is a feminist writer, artist, speaker, and activist of American Indian and European ancestry. She has spoken nationally and internationally on issues of rape, race, poverty, homelessness, prostitution, and pornography and organised many community events, including Amerika: Land of Rape and Genocide. Her writing and art have been published in numerous periodicals and anthologies and she has appeared on National Public Radio and various television and radio shows. She was interviewed for Dirty Little Secret, a documentary on sexual violence. She is a member of the Minnesota Indian Women's Sexual Assault Coalition and completing her MFA in Writing from Minnesota State…    

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Introduction
Understanding systems of prostitution
How prostitution works
Confronting pornography: Some conceptual basics
Blow bangs and cluster bombs: The cruelty of men and Americans
The use of new communication technologies for sexual exploitation of women and children
In and out: A survivor's memoir of stripping
Pornography, prostitution, and women's human rights in Japan
Prostitution and the new slavery
King Kong and the white woman: Hustler magazine and the demonization of black masculinity
Nobody's concubine
Prostitution in Vancouver: Pimping women and the colonization of first nations
The journey home: An interview
Pornography, prostitution, and a beautiful and tragic recent history
Resisting the sexual new world order
Prostitution for everyone: Feminism, globalisation and the 'sex' industry
Left Labor in bed with the sex industry
Resisting the promotion of prostitution in Canada: A view from the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter
Can prostitution be safe?: Applying occupational health and safety codes to Australia's legalised brothel prostitution
Sex and feminism: Who is being silenced?
No more 'Porn Nights'
Girls to boyz: Sex radical women promoting prostitution, pornography, and sadomasochism
Surviving, conceiving, confronting
Strategies of connection: prostitution and feminist politics
Making hay while the sun shines: The dynamics of strip clubs in the Upper Midwest and the community response
What does pornography say about me(n)?: How I became an anti-pornography activist
Who are women in pornography?: A conversation
Cuntspeak: Words from the heart of darkness
Prostitution as a harmful cultural practice
Pornography and international human rights
Against their will: Nepal's activist theatre fights girl-trafficking
Fighting the war against sexual trafficking of women and girls
List of contributors
Index