Selling sex a hidden history of prostitution
This is the only such book to be attempted in Australia. It covers over 200 years of history, and includes discussion of sexual exchange in Australia prior to European colonisation. It is relevant to the whole of Australia as well as having a strong international dimension: the content is based on e...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sydney, NSW :
UNSW Press
2007.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798024606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- Part 1. Convict society
- 2. Imperial whoremasters?
- 3. Damned whores?
- Part 2. The frontiers
- 4. The mines
- 5. The ports
- 6. The pastoral stations
- Part 3. Late colonial cities and towns
- 7. Shades of scarlet
- 8. Of prince and prostitutes
- 9. The 'problem of prostitution'
- 10. Status and stigma
- Part 4. The new nation
- 11. White slavers and their enemies
- 12. The rise of the red-light district
- 13. From grand brothels to vice queens
- 14. Crackdown and exclusion
- Part 5. Into the present
- 15. War and peace
- 16. Global sex and local law
- 17. Reflecting on prostitution's past.
