Not For Sale : Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography
Contents: Introduction. Part I. Understanding systems of prostitution: 1. How prostitution works/Joe Parker. 2. Confronting pornography: some conceptual basics/Rebecca Whisnant. 3. Blow bangs and cluster bombs: the cruelty of men and Americans/Robert Jensen. 4. The use of new communication technologies for sexual exploitation of women and children/Donna Hughes. 5. In and out: a survivor\'s memoir of stripping/Taylor Lee. 6. Pornography, prostitution, and women\'s human rights in Japan/Seiya Morita. 7. Prostitution and the new slavery/Vednita Carter. 8. King Kong an the white women: Hustler magazine and the demonization of black masculinity/Gail Dines. 9. Nobody\'s concubine/Chong Kim. 10. Prostitution in Vancouver: pimping women and the colonization of first nations/Melissa Farley and Jacqueline Lynne. 11. The journey home: an interview/Samantha Emery. 12. Pornography, prostitution, and a beautiful and tragic recent history/Andrea Dworkin. Part II. Resisting the sexual new world order: 13. Prostitution for everyone: feminism, globalisation and the \'sex\' industry/D.A. Clarke. 14. Left labor in bed with the sex industry/Joyce Wu. 15. Resisting the promotion of prostitution in Canada: a view from the Vancouver rape relief and women\'s shelter/Lee Lakeman, Alice Lee, and Suzanne Jay. 16. Can prostitution be safe?" Applying occupational health and safety codes to Australia\'s legalised brothel prostitution/Mary Lucille Sullivan. 17. Sex and feminism: who is being silenced?/Adriene Sere. 18. No more \'Porn Nights\'/Kirsten Anderberg. 19. Girls to boyz: sex radical women promoting prostitution, pornography, and sadomasochism/Christine Stark. Part III. Surviving, conceiving, confronting: 20. Strategies of connection: prostitution and feminist politics/Margaret A. Baldwin. 21. Making hay while the sun shines: the dynamics of strip clubs in the upper Midwest and the community response/Sherry Lee Short. 22. What does pornography say about me(n)?: How I became an anti-pornography activist/Rus Ervin Funk. 23. Who are women in pornography? A conversation/Ann Simonton and Carol Smith. 24. Cuntspeak: words from the heart of darkness/Jane Caputi. 25. Prostitution as a harmful cultural practice/Sheila Jeffreys. 26. Pornography and international human rights/John Stoltenberg. 27. Against their will: Nepal\'s activist theatre fights girl-trafficking/Carol Davis. 28. Fighting the war against sexual trafficking of women and girls/Leslie R. Wolfe. List of contributors. Index.
"As prostitution and pornography increasingly saturate our lives and our communities, they are also becoming normalized and accepted as harmless entertainment for men and as legitimate, even liberating, forms of work for women. Not For Sale brings the feminist movement against prostitution and pornography into the 21 century, showing how these industries cause grievous harm to those within them while undermining the possibilities for gender justice, human equality, and truly diverse and joyful sexual relationships.
The essays collected here connect feminist perspectives on the sex industry with radical critiques of racism, poverty, militarism, and unbridled corporate capitalism, and how the harms of prostitution and pornography are amplified by contemporary technologies of mass communication. Bringing together research, testimony, and theory by more than thirty writers and activists from different countries and generations, including a number of courageous industry survivors, Not For Sale is both a vital contribution to ongoing debates and a call to action and resistance." (jacket)
