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LBST / WGST 415: Sex Work and Sex Workers (Rev. C2/C1) Report a Broken Link

Unit 1: Introduction

Fitzgerald, J. (2018, May 11). What it's like being a mom and a sex worker. Retrieved from https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bj388w/what-its-like-being-a-mom-and-a-sex-worker?fbclid=IwAR2-Jt5DCW_A1PIjRkq3tnEk-7gWFuxS8m1uM8MQ5vljyEjBYoJpSL3ySNA
Piper, R. (2018, July 16). Secret life of an autistic stripper. Retrieved from https://narratively.com/secret-life-of-an-autistic-stripper/
Petro, M. (2016, September 22). Former sex worker seeks happy ending. Retrieved from https://jezebel.com/former-sex-worker-seeks-happy-ending-1785999951
de Vries, S. (2002). Woman: A poem written by Sarah de Vries. Studies in Political Economy, 68(1), 35–36.
Dean, A. (2010). Inheriting what lives on: The “terrible gift” of Sarah de Vries’s poetry. In A. Anderson, W. Kubik, & M. Hampton (Eds.), Torn from our midst: Voices of grief, healing and action from the Missing Indigenous Women Conference, 2008 (pp. 168–181). University of Regina Press.

Enter page number 186 to access the beginning of the reading.

Unit 2: Sex, Work, and Sex Work

Jello, L. (2015, January 13). A tunnel, not a door: Exiting conditioned, generational sex work. Retrieved from http://titsandsass.com/a-tunnel-not-a-door-exiting-conditioned-generational-sex-work/
St. James, J. (2017, April 26). Working while pregnant is about survival. Retrieved from titsandsass.com/working-while-pregnant-is-about-survival/
Story, R. (2016, May 2). Working in a New Zealand brothel was anything but "a job like any other." Retrieved from https://www.feministcurrent.com/2016/05/02/working-in-a-new-zealand-brothel-was-anything-but-a-job-like-any-other/
Michaels, K. (2017, August 24). Surviving as working class after backpage. Retrieved from http://titsandsass.com/surviving-as-working-class-after-backpage/
Gwyn, N. (2015, March 18). On performing capitalism. Retrieved from http://titsandsass.com/on-performing-capitalism/
Weitzer, R. (2009). Sociology of sex work. Annual Review of Sociology. 35(1), 213–234.
Koken, J. A. (2010). The meaning of the “whore”: How feminist theories on prostitution shape research on female sex workers. In M. H. Ditmore, A. Levy, & A. Willman (Eds.), Sex work matters: Exploring money, power and intimacy in the sex industry (pp. 28–64). Zed Books.

Unit 3: Critical Discourses on Sexuality and Labour

Dworkin, A. (1993). “Prostitution and male supremacy.” Michigan Journal of Gender and Law, 1(1), 1–12.
Smiley, C. (2011). Stealing Native women’s “unceded” bodies. Fourth World Journal, 10(1), 63–72.
Dawn, A. (2013, June 12). A sex worker’s struggle to “change the Code.” The Tyee.
Chateauvert, M. (2013). “The revolution is finally here!” Sex work and strategic sex. In Sex workers unite: A history of the movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk (pp. 8–20). Beacon Press.

Unit 4: Sex Work and the Law

Barnett, L., Casavant, L., & Nicol, J. (2011). Prostitution: A review of legislation in selected countries (revised 2014). Publication No. 2011-115-E. Ottawa: Parliamentary Information and Research Service.
Canada (Attorney General) v. Bedford, [2013] 3 SCR 1101, 2013 SCC 72 (CanLII).
Department of Justice Canada. (2014). Bill C-36, An Act to amend the Criminal Code in response to the Supreme Court of Canada decision in Attorney General of Canada v. Bedford and to make consequential amendments to other Acts.
Criminal Code RSC 1985, c C-46.

Unit 5: Indigenous Experiences of Sex Work

Seshia, M. (2005). The unheard speak out: Street sexual exploitation in Winnipeg. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: Ottawa.
Bourgeois, R. (2015). Colonial exploitation: The Canadian state and the trafficking of Indigenous women and girls in Canada. UCLA Law Review, 62(6), 1426–1463.
Sikka, A. (2010). Trafficking of Aboriginal women and girls in Canada. Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi). 57.
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. (2019). Reclaiming power and place: The final report of the National Inquiry into missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Volume 1a. Author.

Read the section entitled "The Sex Industry, Sexual Exploitation and Human Trafficking" on pages 656–671.

Unit 6: International Migration and Sex Tourism

Jeffrey, L. A. (2011). Canada and migrant sex-work: Challenging the “foreign” in foreign policy. Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, 12(1), 33–48.
Brooks, A., & Heaslip, V. (2019). Sex trafficking and sex tourism in a globalised world. Tourism Review. Pre-print.
Brents, B., & Hausbeck, K. (2007). Marketing sex: US legal brothels and late capitalism consumption. Sexualities, 10(4), 425–439.

Unit 7: Other Actors in the Sex Industry

Raphael, J., Reichert, J., & Powers, M. (2010). Pimp control and violence: Domestic sex trafficking of Chicago women and girls. Women & Criminal Justice, 20, 89–104.
Morselli, C., & Savoie-Gargiso, I. (2014). Coercion, control, and cooperation in a prostitution ring. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 653, 247–265.
Atchison C. (2010). Report on the preliminary findings for johns’ voice: A study of adult Canadian sex buyers. Simon Fraser University.
suzyhooker. (2013, May 29). On hobbyists and reviews: Providers sound off. [web log comment]. Retrieved from http://titsandsass.com/on-hobbyists-and-reviews-providers-sound-off/
Bruckert, C., & Hannem, S. (2013). To serve and protect? Structural stigma, social profiling, and the abuse of police power in Ottawa. In Emily van der Meulen, Elya M. Durisin, & Victoria Love (Eds.), Selling sex: Experience, advocacy, and research on sex work in Canada (pp. 297–313). UBC Press.
van der Meulen, E. (2012). When sex is work: Organizing for labour rights and protections. Labour/Le Travail, 69, 147–167.