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Author:Perkins, Roberta.
Title:Call girls : private sex workers in Australia / Roberta Perkins & Frances Lovejoy.
Published:Crawley, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, 2007.
Description:ix, 177 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:9781920694913 (pbk.)
1920694919 (pbk.)
LC Call Number:HQ270.A5
Dewey Number:306.7420994
Summary:A comprehensive study of women working in the Australian sex industry - usually outside of brothels and often via telephone from home (thus their name). Call Girls makes for surprising and challenging reading and, most importantly, places the world of the sex worker within political and legal contexts which will surprise and change the preconceived notions of many readers.--publisher.
Contents:Selling sex in Australia--Becoming a call girl--The workplace--Making a safe house--Addiction and indulgence--The customers--Society, morality and the law--Lovers, spouses and others--There's no business like dough business.
Notes:Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 167-170.
Subjects:Prostitutes -- Australia -- Interviews.
Sex workers
Sex industry
Prostitutes
Prostitution
Sociological analyses
Surveys
Other Authors:Lovejoy, Frances.
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