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The Rights and Wrongs of Prostitution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Julia O'Connell Davidson
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Abstract

This essay critically explores contemporary Euro-American feminist debate on prostitution. It argues that to develop analyses relevant to the experience of more than just a small minority of “First World” women, those who are concerned with prostitution as a form of work need to look beyond liberal discourse on property and contractual consent for ways of conceptualizing the rights and wrongs of “sex work.”

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Hypatia , Volume 17 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Love and Work , Spring 2002 , pp. 84 - 98
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Copyright © 2002 by Hypatia, Inc.

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