Women's Health, Studies, Feminism and Ethics

Hallgrímsdóttir et al. Sporting Girls, Streetwalkers, and Inmates of Houses of Ill Repute: Media Narratives and the Historical Mutability of Prostitution Stigmas. 2008 Sociol Perspect (abstract)

Dianne Grant. Sexin'Work: The politics of prostitution regulation. New Proposals 2008 (pdf)

Olga Marques. Choice-makers and risk-takers in neo-liberal liquid modernity: The Contradiction of the “Entrepreneurial” Sex Worker. Int J Crim 2010 (pdf)

Regulating Sex in Canada

Law

HW MacLauchlan: Of fundamental justice, equality and society's outcasts: a commen ton R v Tremayne and R v. McLean. McGill LJ 1986 (abstract)

Elaine Craig

Re-Interpreting The Criminal Regulation of Sex Work in Light of R c Labaye. Canadian Criminal Law Review 12 (2008): 327 (pdf)

The Political Morality of Public Sex. McGill Law Journal 54.2 (2009) (pdf)

Sex Work By Law: Bedford's Impact on the Municipal Regulation of the Sex Trade. Rev Constitutional Studies 2011

Research by Provinces

British Columbia

History

Deborah Nilsen, "The 'Social Evil': Prostitution in Vancouver, 1900-1920," in Barbara Latham and Cathy Kess, eds., In Her Own Right: Selected Essays in Women's History in British Columbia (Victoria: Camosun College, 1980), pp. 205-28. (1976 Thesis UBC)

Charleen Smith. Regulating Prostitution in British Columbia, 1895–1930. MA Thesis Calgary 2001.

Linda Houseman. Markets and morals: A study of economic changes and prostitution-related discourse 1920-40. Thesis SFU 1991 (pdf)

Becki Ross. Bumping and grinding on the line: Making nudity pay. Labour/Le travail 2000 (abstract) (pdf)

Ross and Greenwell. Spectacular Striptease: Performing the Sexual and Racial Other in Vancouver, B.C., 1945-1975. J Wom Hist 2005 (abstract)

Patrick A Dunae. Geographies of sexual commerce and the production of prostitutional space: Victoria, British Columbia 1860-1914. JCHA 2008 (pdf)

Patrick A. Dunae. Sex, Charades, and Census Records: Locating Female Sex Trade Workers in a Victorian City. Social history 2009 (pdf)

Becki L. Ross. Sex and (Evacuation from) the City: The Moral and Legal Regulation of Sex Workers in Vancouver’s West End, 1975—1985. Sexualities 2010 (abstract)

Presentation (video)

Health

Manzon et al. HIV seroprevalence among street involved Canadians in Vancouver 1992 (pdf)

Rekart. Trends in HIV seroprevalence among street-involved persons in Vancouver, Canada (1988-1992) Int Conf AIDS 1993 (abstract)

Strathdee et al. Needle exchange is not enough AIDS 1997

Shannon et al. HIV vulnerabilities of women engaged in survival sex work in Vancouver's downtown eastside. CAHR 2005 (abstract)[1]

McInnes et al. HIV/AIDS in Vancouver Harm Reduction Journal 2009

Tamara O'Doherty: Off-street commercial sex: an exploratory study MA Thesis 2007 (pdf)

(Off-street sex workers less likely to face violence. Vancouver Sun June 17 2007)[2]

(Study says off-street sex work can be safe. Vancouver Courier February 27 2009)

Client Studies

John Lowman: Men who buy sex (Greater Vancouver). Can Rev Soc Anthr 2006

Johns’ Voice

(Press release)

Mary Shearman. Feministes Fatales: The Feminist Movements and „Neo‟Burlesque 2008 (pdf)

Youth

Steven Bittle. Reconstructing "Youth Prostitution" as the "Sexual Procurement of Children" Thesis SFU 1994 (pdf)

Manitoba

Kohm, Selwood: Sex work and city planning: Winnipeg's Red Light District Committee 2004 (pdf)

Ontario

Lewis and Maticka: Licensing sex work Can Pub Pol 2000

Patricia Erikson: Crack and prostitution. J Drug Issues 2000 (pdf)

History

Sangster J. Incarcerating ‘bad girls’: The regulation of sexuality through the Female Refuges Act in Ontario, 1920-1945. J Hist Sex 1996 (abstract)

Ross B. Destaining the (tattoed) delinquent body: Moral regulatory practices at Toronto’s Street haven, 1965-1969. J Hist Sex 1997 (abstract)

Katherine McKenna. Women's Agency in Upper Canada: Prescott's Board of Police Record, 1834-1850. Social History 2003 (pdf)

Quebec

Poutanen. To indulge their carnal appetite: Prostitution in early nineteenth century Montreal 1810-1842. PhD Thesis U Montreal 1996

Mary Ane Poutanen. Regulating Public Space in Early Nineteeth Century Montreal: Laws and gender in a colonial context. Social History 2002 (pdf)

Véro Leduc. Les dimensions féministes de la lutte pour la reconnaissance sociale des travailleuses du sexe. IREF-UQÀM April 2010 (pdf)

Atlantic Region

Tanya Smith: Pimping and prostitution in Halifax in the early 1990s - The evolution of a moral panic. MA Thesis Dalhousie University 2000 (pdf)

Lois Jackson: Sex trade workers in Halifax - What are their risks of HIV? Can Woman Stud 2001 (abstract); (Word)

Anita Keeping: Making HIV prevention education and services "fit" sex worker's needs. Can Woman Stud 2004 (abstract); (pdf)

Lois Jackson: Female sex trade workers, condoms and the public/private divide. J Psych Hum Sex 2005 (abstract)

Jeffrey and MacDonald: The economy of sex work in the Maritimes. Can Rev Soc Anthr 2006 (pdf)

Executive Council of New Brunswick Women's Issues (Lee and Coates): Sex trade research initiative 2007 (pdf)

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[1] CAHR: Canadian Association for HIV Research

[2] “My biggest surprise in doing this research was how incredibly articulate these women in the industry were. People obviously assume women wouldn’t make the choice to go into prostitution but I found these women are from every walk of life. Some women were sex workers only on weekends with regular out-of-town clients. They’re moms, artists, lawyers, nurses, police officers and teachers. You would have no idea if you had one of them living next door to you.”