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008			110331s2007 eng
040			_aWSS _dAFV
100			_aSullivan, Barbara _92173
245			_aRape, prostitution and consent _cSullivan, Barbara
260			_c2007
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490	0		_aAustralian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology
500			_aAustralian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 2007, 40(2): 127-142
520			_aThis article examines 51 court judgments between 1829 and 2004 made in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand where evidence of prostitution was presented. The author describes a notable change in the 1980s and 1990s when men began to be prosecuted and convicted for raping sex workers. This change is attributed partly to law reform, but also to feminist activism and changing social attitudes changes to rape. The author argues that sex workers are now seen in law as women vulnerable to rape, although further legal rights for prostitutes as workers need to be developed. However the view of prostitutes as individuals able to give and withhold sexual consent calls into question the concept held in both conservative and feminist thought that prostitution always involves rape as it is a violent and coercive act perpetrated on the vulnerable. The author argues that a feminist politics of prostitution needs to engage with power relations in this area.
650	2	7	_2FVC _aGENDER _9269
650	2	7	_2FVC _aJUSTICE _9333
650	2	7	_2FVC _aPROSTITUTION _9468
650	2	7	_2FVC _aRAPE _9488
650	2	4	_aSEXUAL VIOLENCE _9531
651	2	4	_aNEW ZEALAND _92588
773	0		_tAustralian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 2007, 40(2): 127-142
856	4		_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1375/acri.40.2.127
942			_2ddc _cARTICLE
999			_c1942 _d1942