Selling Sex: A Hidden History of ProstitutionSelling Sex provides the first comprehensive history of prostitution in Australia from before European colonization to the present, and situates this history within an international context of labor migration and policy formation. It draws on extensive archival research and interviews to chart the ways in which prostitution contributed not just to women’s economic survival but also to broader processes of colonization and nation-building. |
Contents
CONVICT SOCIETY | 7 |
Damned whores? | 25 |
Part 2 | 46 |
The ports | 74 |
The pastoral stations | 95 |
THE NEW NATION | 109 |
Part 3 | 113 |
Of prince and prostitutes | 128 |
White slavers and their enemies | 178 |
The rise of the redlight district | 198 |
From grand brothels to vice queens | 216 |
Part 5 | 231 |
INTO THE PRESENT | 249 |
Global sex and local law | 270 |
Reflecting on prostitutions past | 293 |
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