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Article Excerpt
Not For Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography Christine Stark and Rebecca Whisnant (eds) North Melbourne, Spinifex Press, 2004. $34.95
Not For Sale is a must-read anthology about the transnational sex industry. It is a collection of writing from women and men around the world that details all aspects of the industry, including its economic, political and social importance. It is divided into three parts: 'Understanding systems of prostitution', 'Resisting the new world sexual order', and 'Surviving, conceiving, confronting'.
It is fashionable to presume that a book written by feminists about the sex industry will labour under white, middle-class moralising and unsubstantiated polemic. Such a presumption should not be made about this book. It is rich with raw data, interviews, political theory and yes, some rather exciting polemic,...
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