The Politics of Sex
The Politics of Sex
Prostitution and Pornography in Australia since 1945
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This political history of the sex industry in Australia cogently presents all sides of a complex and changing debate. It looks at how prostitution and pornography are regulated, and how debates about them are produced. Sullivan examines political and legal discourse in the broader societal context of changing attitudes to sexual conduct. Using a broad range of examples from newspapers to films to demographics, the book highlights questions of censorship and of literature vs. pornography. It also offers a critique of feminist debates.
- An up-to-date assessment of laws addressed to both prostitution and pornography in Australia over the last 100 years
- Commentary on the different forms of decriminalisation of prostitution attempted in Australia over the last 15 years
- In-depth discussion of the social, cultural and political factors which have influenced the development of laws
Product details
September 1997Paperback
9780521556309
290 pages
229 × 152 × 17 mm
0.43kg
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Forming the Sex Industries:
- 1. Marking danger: prostitution and pornography before 1945
- 2. A new moral economy? the immediate post war years 1945–55
- Part II. The Sexual Revolution:
- 3. The sexual revolution and pornography 1955–69
- 4. Revolutionary limits: governing prostitution 1955–69
- 5. Libertarian movements 1970–5
- Part III. After the Revolution:
- 6. New sexual politics 1975–85
- 7. Current issues.
