Research
Scarlet Alliance is actively working toward ensuring sex workers:
- have increased skills to participate effectively in research
- can participate in research which has positive outcomes for sex workers
- are resourced for participating in research
- are empowered to critique poor or unethical research
Links
Call girls : private sex workers in Australia, Roberta Perkins and Francis LovejoyCrawley, W.A. : UWA Press, 2007, ISBN: 9781920694913, Dewey Number: 306.7420994 Link to more information |
Sexworkers Critique of Swedish Prostitution Policy by Petra OstergrenLink here | The law against procurement of sexual services (promotion or deriving profit from prostitution) and a recent law prohibiting the purchase of sexual services introduced in 1999 are the two main ways the Swedish state sees itself as "combating" prostitution. Swedish politicians and feminists are proud of the state's prostitution policy. They insist that it has positive effects. Sexworkers are of a different view. |
Research for Sex Work, No. 9 (June 2006) Sex Work and MoneyDownload from external site Scarlet Alliance supports Research For Sex Work |
RS4SW #9 Contents: Editorial - Melissa Ditmore Condom shortages in Sub-Saharan Africa - Anna-Louise Crago Contributing to "Development": Money made selling sex - Laura Maria Agustin Show me the money - Jo Weldon Money and politics in Cambodia - Women's Network for Unity Money and sex: what economics should be doing for sex work research - Alys Willman-Navarro Sex workers and finances: a case study of New York City - Juhu Thukral "I did it ... for the money": sex work as a means to socio-economic opportunity - Melissa Petro Chinese migrant sex workers in Hong Kong - Zi Teng Money and sex work in Jamaica - Marlene Taylor The TRIPS agreement, HIV, and international sex work - Amit Sen Gupta and Ananya Mukherjea |
Working girls : prostitutes, their life and social control by Roberta PerkinsISBN 0 642 15877 0 Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 1991 Link here | An analysis of prostitution laws throughout Australia are presented in this book as Roberts discusses the need for the decriminalisation of prostitution. Detailed findings from a survey of Sydney prostitutes and excerpts from in-depth interviews are included. Perkins also reviews a vast literature on the subject of prostitution. This book made an incredibly important contribution to sex worker rights in the early days of the movement; the research validates sex work as work comes from a sex worker rights framework. |
Updated 11 April 2006