Feminists have long debated how gender, sexuality and labour are implicated in women’s oppression. While virtually all have seen these as core questions, how to respond politically has been a matter of much debate. Opinions on the exchange of sexual services for money is a repetitive feature of these debates.
The two books discussed here represent two stereotypical poles of a long-standing feminist divide and are limited because of this. oberta Perkins and Frances Lovejoy: Call Girls: Private Sex Workers in Australia (UWA Press, ISBN 9781920694913, $39.95) and
Mary Lucille Sullivan: Making Sex Work: A Failed Experiment with Legalised Prostitution (Spinifex Press, ISBN 9781876756604, $34.95)
