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- Title: Making Sex Work: A Failed Experiment in Legalized Prostitution (Book Review)
- Author : Journal of International Women's Studies
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 185 KB
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Making Sex Work: A Failed Experiment in Legalized Prostitution. Mary Lucille Sullivan. 2007. North Melbourne, Australia: Spinifex Press Pty Ltd. 413 pp. (+ viii, notes, index). Illustrated, with tables. $18.95 (paperback). In everyday discourse, the terms "sex worker" and "prostitute" are used interchangeably, with very few people questioning the implications of such an easy association. It is this unquestioned synonymy (implied by this association), which suggests that prostitution could be considered "work," that acts as the starting point of contention in Mary Lucille Sullivan's Making Sex Work. In this thoroughly researched project, Sullivan gives a comprehensive account of the dire effects of the legalization of prostitution in Victoria, Australia--effects that arise from the state's legitimation of prostitution as legal work.