Summary

With its mix of personal stories, theory, research, testimony and accounts of current activism, 'Not For Sale' will be an invaluable resource for those seeking to inform themselves about the realities of the 'sex business' and will serve to strengthen and broaden feminist resistance to pornography and prostitution.

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Including the latest research on prostitution and pornography, this essay anthology shows how the sex industries harm those within them while undermining the possibilities for gender justice, human equality, and stable sexual relationships. From sex industries survivors to social activists and theorists such as Taylor Lee, Adriene Sere, and Kristen Anderberg, this volume asses from a feminist perspective the racism, poverty, militarism, and corporate capitalism of selling sex through strip clubs, brothels, mail-order brides, and child pornography.

Joe Parker : How Prostitution works
Rebecca Whisnant : Confronting Pornography : Some Conceptual Basics
Robert Jenson : Below bangs and Cluster bombs : The cruelty of men and Americans
Donna Hughes : The use of new communication technologiers for sexual expolitation of women and children
Taylor Lee : In and out : A survivors memoirs of stripping
Siya Morita : Pornography, Prostitution, and womens human rights in Japan
Vednita Carter : Prostitution and the new slavery
Gail Dines : King Kong and the white women : Hustler magazine and the demonization of black masculinity
Chong Kim : Nobodys concubine
Melissa Farley and Jacqueline Lynne : Prostitution in Vancouver : Pimping women and the colonization of first nations
Samantha Emery : The journey home : An interview
Andrea Dworkin : Ponography, Prostitution, and a beautiful and tragic recent history.............................................................................................