The Politics of Sex: Prostitution and Pornography in Australia since 1945

by Barbara Ann Sullivan

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521556309
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/07/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.67(d)

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.