Women's Health, Studies, Feminism and Ethics
Sex Work: The Americas
Government seeks to end
prostitution. Antigua Sun Nov 25 2007
Dominican Republic
Haiti
US policies leaves AIDS
uncontrolled amongst sex workers. NY Times Dec 2 2007
The Secret Life: A Portrait of a Sex Worker in
Haiti. Housing Works Oct 28 2010
Mexico City 2008: Somos Parte de la Solución
- We are Part of the Solution
Valdespino:
Profile of the female prostitution in Mexico and HIV risk factors. Int Conf
AIDS 1990
Castaneda: The double life of female sex workers
in Mexico City. Cult Med Psych 1996 (abstract)
Bucardo: A qualitative exploration of female sex workers
in Tijuana. Arch Sex Behav 2004 (abstract)
Mexico City's thousands of prostitutes
regulated. AP Sept 3 1997
Mexico City to consider
legalising prostitution. June 2007
Does Mexico City Need a Red-Light District? Time
Nov 12 2009
Prostitutes in Tijuana fight, beat City Hall.
Hookers organize to stop proposal to ban street walking in revitalized
red-light district. San Francisco Chronicle January 23, 2005
AMMAR:
Asociacion de Mujeres Meretrices de la Argentina (Sindicato de Trabajadoras
Sexuales)
Argentina's
prostitutes get militant. Guardian 2004
Argentina
sex workers go back to school. BBC 2005
March
for Sandra Cabrera (murdered). June 2007
Research
Media
Capital
of Sin: The State of Prostitution in Buenos Aires. Argentina Independent Feb 2
2009
Bolivia
Stigma, riots and strikes in Bolivia. Time Oct 24 2007
Brazil
Research
Andrade-Neto
JL. Female sex work in Brazil: risk and prevalence. Int AIDS Conf 1994
(Our Lady of Help: Sex, Tourism and Transnational Displacement in
Copacabana)
(Prostitutes, victims of trafficking and moral panics: an analysis of
how facts are produced in research regarding "trafficking of human
beings")
Piscitelli: Sexual tourism in NE Brazil. Sexualities Oct 2007 (abstract)
Piscitelli. Brasileiras na indústria transnacional do sexo. Nuevo Mundo 2007
Piscitelli: Looking for New Worlds: Brazilian Women as
International Migrants. Signs 2008
Media
Brazil turns down
US Aids funds. BBC May 4 2005
Brazilian
Sex Workers Don’t Mourn, They Organize. Brasilmax
Oct 19 2005
Congress defeats
Greens legalisation bill. Nov 8 2007
Organisations
NEP (Núcleo de Estudos da Prostituição)
Rede Brasileira de Prostitutas
Colombia
Sex workers have workers' rights:
Court. Colombia Reports Oct 4 2010.
Costa Rica
Megan Rivers-Moore. But the kids are
okay. Brit J Sociol 2010 (abstract)
Mexico
Bliss KE. Compromised Positions: Prostitution, public
health, and gender politics in revolutionary Mexico City. Pennsylvania
State University Press, University Park 2001
Kelly P. Lydia's Open Door: Inside Mexico's Most Modern Brothel.
University of California 2008
Peru
Organisations
Movimiento de trabajadoras sexuales del Perú
Reasearch
Books
Nencel L. Ethnography and Prostitution in Peru. Pluto, London 1991
Last
updated: October 19, 2011
Dr Michael Goodyear,
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