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Australian studies in law, crime and justice
Sex workers or scarlet women?
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Working girls : prostitutes, their life and social control / Roberta Perkins
ISBN 0 642 15877 0
Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 1991
(Australian studies in law, crime and justice series)
Abstract
From four perspectives - that of the prostitute, the moralist, the scientist, and the jurist - a history and discussion of prostitution as work, immorality, a subject for study, and a legal entity is examined. The author endeavours to determine from the evidence whether the prostitute should be regarded as a "sex worker" or as a "scarlet woman".