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  1. Feminist Issues In Prostitution
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1997
    The flawed reasoning behind the opposition to prostitution by (radical) feminists.
  2. Good Girls, Bad Girls
    Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
  3. In Conflict with the Law
    Women and the Canadian Justice System
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    "timely and incisive critique of women and the Canadian justice system. Written from a feminist perspective, the collection is organized into three thematic sextions: Federal Imprisonment of Women -- Past, Present and Future; Images and Realities -- Profiles of Women Offenders; and Theoretical Considerations about Women in Conflict with the Law."
    "Among the highlighted issues are prostitution, Battered Woman Syndrome as a defence for women who kill abusive partners, Aboriginal women's significant contributions to prison reform, media stereotypes of women in prison, and a progress report on the implementation of recommendations from the 1990 Task Force on Federally Sentenced Women"
  4. Paying for It
    A Guide by Sex Workers for their Clients
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    A book of advice for sex work customers, written by sex workers and former sex workers, about how to treat sex workers so they like you more and give you better service.
  5. Prostitution Rights
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1980
    Decriminalization takes prostitution from the jurisdiction of the criminal code. It means private sexual acts between consenting adults are placed outside the realm of criminal laws.
  6. Public Housing Redesign
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    The solution to the specific problems of illegal drug dealing and prostitution is decriminalization.
  7. Red City, Blue Period
    Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona
    Resource Type: Book
  8. The Red Menace
    A libertarian socialist newsletter

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
  9. The Secret Museum
    Pornography in Modern Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  10. Sexwork.com
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Sex Work Cyber Resource & Support Center. Promoting Intimacy and Positive, Healthy, Consenting Adult Sexuality.
  11. Working Girls: Prostitutes, Their Life and Social Control
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    An analysis of prostitution laws in Austrailia and a discussion of the need for decriminalisation.

Experts on Prostitution in the Sources Directory

  1. Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres
  2. Covenant House
  3. SIECCAN, The Sex Information and Education Council of Canada
  4. Simon Fraser University

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