Women's
Health, Studies, and Feminism
Sex Work: Canada
Index
Legal and constitutional
challenges
Parliamentary Committee
2003-6
Suggested
Books
Advocacy
CORP (Canadian
Organization for the Rights of Prostitutes) 1983-94[1]
Canadian National Coalition of Experiential
Women
SPOC: Sex
Professionals of Canada
Building relations with police. National Post Dec
15 2007
Other
Lobbying for
decriminalization of sex work
History
Canadian
Committee on the History of Sexuality
Constance
Backhouse: Nineteenth-Century Canadian Prostitution Law: Reflection of a
discriminatory society. Soc Hist
1985[2]
John McLaren: Recalculating the Wages of
Sin: the Social and Legal Construction of Prostitution 1850-1920. Manitoba Law Journal
1995
P Ranasinghe. Reconceptualizing Vagrancy and Reconstructing the Vagrant. Osgoode LJ 2010 (pdf)
Provinces
British Columbia
History
Susan Davis
Organisations
ASP (Alliance for
the Safety of Prostitutes)[3]
SWAV (Sex Workers Alliance of Vancouver)
Sex Workers’ Workbook 2005 (pdf)
Downtown Eastside
Sex Workers United Against Violence
West Coast Cooperative of Sex Industry Professionals
Reports (with Law Foundation
of British Columbia)
Voices for
Dignity: Ending the harms 2004
Beyond Decriminalisation 2006 (pdf)
Katrina Pacey and John Lowman at launch
BC Civil Liberties Association
Call to implement Ontarioo court ruling 2010 (pdf)
Sex Workers' Rights 2009 (pdf)
Postion statement on sex work laws 2005
PEERS: Prostitutes Empowerment, Education and Resource Society
Cecilia
Benoit and Alison Millar: Dispelling myths and understanding realities 2001
Jody Paterson: Co-operative brothel a dream. Victoria Times-Colonist Aug
24 2007
Journalist to open cooperative brothel in
Victoria. CP Sept 1 2007
British Columbia Coalition of Experiential Women
Jody Paterson
PACE:
Prostitution Alternatives Counselling Education
Violence against women in Vancouver's
street sex trade 2001 (pdf)
Research Ethics
–A guide for community organisations 2006 (scroll down)
(see also: Tips for participating in research)
Alan
Ferguson responds. The Province Oct 28 2007
Community Initiative for Health
and Safety
(note publications)
Feminist Initiative for Rights of Sex
Workers (FIRST)
FIRST
combats Olympic Games myths. Vancouver Sun Dec 6 2007
Sex Industry Worker Safety Action Group (SIWSAG)
Press release on
Olympic Games report June 11 2009 (pdf)
Report:
Human trafficking, Sex Work Safety and the 2010 Games 2009 (pdf)
SWAN (Supporting Women’s Alternatives
Network)
CROWE (Concerned Residents of the
West End)
Women
Against Violence Against Women
REED: Resist Exploitation,
Embrace Dignity
XPALSS: Ex Prostitutes Against Legislated Sexual Servitude
Other Reports
From
the curb: Sex workers' perspectives on violence and trafficking. 2006 (pdf)
Media
Dan Gardner
The hidden world of
hookers. Ottawa Citizen
June 8 2002
Do some women really choose to be
prostitutes? June 9
Courting death I - the law has hounded
hookers out of safe areas. June 15
How cities 'license' off-street hookers.
June 16
2010
will make city a magnet for trafficking. Vancouver Sun Nov 10 2007
Coalition
pushes for legal brothel. Vancouver Sun Nov 12
Women
no better off. Province Dec 3 2007
Anti-prostitution groups rally against brothels. Vancouver Sun Dec 3
We
are all complicit in the death of these women. Times Colonist Dec 11
Isolating
prostitutes is unsafe Canada.com February 6 2009
Cheryl Rossi: The Happy Hooker. Vancouver
Courier February 27 2009
For
data, see: Research. (Ref.
1 Strathdee 1997, Ref 25 Rekart
1992, Ref 35 Shannon 2005)
2010
Games won't bring surge of sex trafficking: study. CBC June 11
Commentary
Georgie Binks. The Cost of Sex CBC Sept 30 2004
Libby
Davies. The missing and murdered women of Vancouver deserve an inquiry. Rabble Aug
27 2010
Alberta
PAAFE: Prostitution Awareness and Action
of Edmonton
Manitoba
History
Prostitution
in Winnipeg in the 1900s
Rhonda Hinther: Prostitution in Winnipeg 1909-12
The
Social Evil (Prostitution in the early 1900s). Winnipeg Sun Dec 16 2007
Ontario
Toronto
Maggies: Toronto
Prostitutes' Community Service Project
SWAT: Sex
Worker's Alliance of Canada
Action
ontarienne contre la violence faite aux femmes
Prostitution : Violating the human rights of poor women
Veiled Arguments -- Toronto's Debates over Strip Clubs.
Mackenzie Institute May 2000
Media
Sex
worker says island brothel idea ‘ridiculous’.
Toronto Observer March 25 2011
Ottawa
POWER (Prostitutes of
Ottawa-Gatineau Work Educate & Resist) 2008
Challenges:
Ottawa-Area Sex Workers Speak Out (pdf)
Quebec
Support
and Advocacy
Submission to City of Montreal 2007 (pdf)
2005 Sex Work Forum,
Media
Preparing for Dec 17th. McGill Daily Dec 3 2007
Nova Scotia
Interview with Rene Ross, CBC Aug 11 2010 (audio)
Meredith
Ralston talks to Stephen Clare February 19 2009 (video)
Media
Meredith
Dault: Sex work in the shadows. The Coast August 20
Research
Public Opinion
Canada: A moral nation? (Leger February 18
2002)
Canadians
Examine What Is Immoral. Angus Reid June 15 2006
Canadians Review What is Morally Acceptable.
Angus Reid Dec 25 2007
Canadians Reject Status Quo on Prostitution.
Angus Reid Nov 28 2009
Half of Canadians Willing
to Allow Adults to Engage in Prostitution. Angus Reid October 19 2010
Suggested
Books
Brock
D: Making work, Making trouble: Prostitution as a social problem. University of
Toronto 1998
Reviews
Globe
and Mail 1998
Canadian Journal of
Sociology 1999
Contemporary
Sociology 1999
Bruckert C: Taking it Off, Putting it On: Women in
the Strip Trade. Women's Press, Toronto 2002
Jeffrey LA,
MacDonald G: Sex workers in the Maritimes talk back. UBC Press, Vancouver 2007
Media Coverage
Maritime prostitutes call for legalisation: Halifax Daily News June 22 2007
Sex workers given voice in a new book:
Chronicle Herald July 20 2007
CBC
Interview with Gayle Macdonald July 19 2007 (audio file)
Ross L. Burlesque West:
Showgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver. University of Toronto 2009
Book Chapters
Greg Marquis,
“Vancouver Vice: The Police and the Negotiation of Morality,
1904-1935,” in, Hamar Foster and John McLaren (eds.) Essays in the History of Canadian Law: Volume VI British Columbia and
the Yukon.. Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
1995: 242-273.
Joan Sangster, Prostitution and Promiscuity: Sexual regulation
and the law, in Regulating Girls and Women: Sexuality,
Family, and the Law in Ontario, 1920-1960. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Michaela Freund. The Politics of Naming: Constructing Prostitutes and
Regulating Women in Vancouver, 1939-45, in John P S
McLaren, Robert Menzies, Dorothy E. Chunn (eds.) Regulating Lives Historical Essays on the
State, Society, the Individual, and the Law, UBC 2002
Charleen Smith. Boomtown
Brothels in the Kootenays, 1895–1905, in
Jonathan Swainger and Constance Backhouse (eds.) People and Place: Historical Influences on
Legal Culture. UBC Press Vancouver 2003
Lewis J, Maticka-Tyndale
E, Shaver F, Schramm H. Managing risk and safety on the job: The experiences of
Canadian sex workers (Abstract),
in Parsons J
(ed.) Contemporary Research in Sex Work. Haworth, Binghamton 2005
Emily van der Meulen.
Canadian and international policies on prostitution: Labor legitimacy, social
change and decriminalisation, in Marjorie
Moral regulation
Valverde M (ed.) Radically rethinking regulation. Toronto
1994
Strange
C, Loo T. Making good: Law and moral regulation in Canada 1867-1939. Toronto
1997
Book reviews
(Dorais M. Rent boys. The world of male sex
workers 2005; Namaste, V. C'etait du spectacle! L'histoire des artistes transsexuelles
à Montréal 1955-85; Bruckert C Taking
off, putting it on. Women in the strip trade 2002)
News and Events
Last updated: October 26, 2011
Dr Michael Goodyear,
For any problems, please contact: mgoodyear@dal.ca