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Feminist approaches to the sex industry

Barbara Sullivan

Published in:
Sex industry and public policy : proceedings of a conference held 6-8 May 1991
Sally-Anne Gerull and Boronia Halstead (eds)
ISBN 0 642 18291 4 ; ISSN 1034-5086
Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 1992
(AIC Conference Proceedings; no. 14)

Abstract

Sullivan gives an historical perspective of feminism and the sex industry in Australia, focusing on the connection between gender and power. She argues that feminist analyses bring sex discrimination and other gender based injustices to public attention, and that feminism could be important in influencing the prostitution law reform underway in Queensland.