Women's Health, Studies, and Feminism
Sex Work: New Zealand
History
New
Zealand History online: Kororareka
Jean
Marie Kehoe: Medicine, Sexuality and Imperialism. PhD Thesis Sociology Victoria
University 1992 (pdf files)
Bronwyn Dalley: 'Fresh Attractions' White slavery and feminism
1885-1918. Women's History Review 2000
Legislation
Vagrancy Act 1866
Police Offences Act 1884
Contagious Diseases Act
1869
Police Offences Act 1927 S.46
Crimes Act 1961
Massage Parlours Act 1978[1]
Litter Act 1979[2]
Summary
Offences Act 1981[3]
Clean
Slate Act 2004[4]
Law Reform
Public
Health Association of
New
Zealand Law Society Submission (2001)
Human
Rights Commission Submission 2001
(Supplemental
submission) (Word)
Political Parties
Green Party
Sue Bradford
Sex workers
deserve the protection of the law 2001
Labour Party
Tim
Barnett
What
did it change and what has happened since? August 2006 (pdf)
The campaign and the outcome. January 2007 (pdf)
Future
Gordon
Copeland
Press release: Party
would repeal PRA and replace it with Swedish system. Nov 19 2007
Report
of Justice and Electoral Committee November 2002
Prostitution
Reform Act 2003 (PRA)[5]
Passed
60:59, Royal Assent June 2003[6]
Regulations
Department of Labour:
Occupational
health and safety in the sex industry 2004
Aftermath
BBC Interview Prime
Minister Helen Clark July 2003
Backlash:
Citizen Initiated Referendum failure 2004
Melissa
Farley: Bad for the Body, Bad for the Heart. Violence against Women 2004 (pdf)
Local Government New
Bradford-Barnett
Submission on Auckland bylaw 2003
High
Court Decision on Auckland Bylaw March 2006 (pdf)
Manukau City Council (Control of Street Prostitution) Bill
2005
Law
Society Submission 2006 (pdf)
Committee
Report September 2006 (pdf)
(Defeated
at second reading Oct 11 2006 (46:73))
Carterton
Christchurch
Brothels Bylaw 2004
(Quashed by High Court 2005)
Sue Bradford on decision
to abandon appeal March 23 2006
Hamilton bylaw upheld. July
2006
(Appeal dismissed
November 28 2007)
Court of Appeal
decision November 2007
By-law to be reviewed. September 2008
Review
Ministry
of Justice: Prostitution Law Review Committee
Prostitution
Law Review Committee: The sex industry in New Zealand 2005
Report on
Street Prostitution April 2009
Media
Review
finds no evidence of more sex workers. NZ Herald May 23 2008
Responses
Dalziel: Act helps health and safety of sex workers. May 23
Barnett:
Reform of prostitution law a success. May 23
Commentary
Goodyear:
Review shows no evidence of social harms. Sex in the Public Square May 25 2008
Laura Agustin: New Zealand prostitution law, sex work, anti-migration
and anti-trafficking. April 20 2009
Research Projects
Research into evaluation of PRA
Jan Jordan: The sex industry in New
Zealand - a literature review 2005 (pdf)
Mossman
and Mayhew: Key informant interviews Oct 2007
Elaine
Mossman: Review of international approaches to legislation Oct 2007
Mayhew and
Mossman: Exiting prostitution - Best practices review Oct 2007
Mossman
and Mayhew: Local Government responses Oct 2007
The impact of the PRA on the health
and safety practices of sex workers
Press Release: Big increase of sex workers a myth. September 2006
Submission to Prostitution Working
Group Oct 2006 (Word)
Media
Selling
sex legally in New Zealand. BBC March 17 2009
Europe and New Zealand poles apart. BBC March 18
Commentary:
Laura Agustin - Bad reporting, prostitution law, nationalism and the BBC. March
20
Learning the game. The Aucklander
March 10 2009
Council
looks for power to ban street prostitutes. NZ Herald Jan 28 2011
Keep
brothels away from our homes - poll. NZ Herald Apr 6
Research
Macfarlane: Transexual prostitution in New Zealand and the Maori. Arch
Sex Behav 1984 (abstract)
Jan Jordan: Sex, law and social control -
the sex industry in New Zealand today. Australian Institute of Criminology 1991
(pdf)
Potter
et al: Early developmental experiences of female sex workers. ANZJ Psych 1999 (abstract)
Romans
et al: Mental and physical health of female sex workers. ANZJ Psych 2001 (abstract)
Weinberg et al:
Men sex workers and HIV risk. Arch Sex Behav 2001 (abstract)
Margaret
Sparrow. Milestones In New Zealand Sexual Health 2003
Abel:
Transitions into adulthood for street-basedsex
workers in New Zealand
J Youth Stud 2008 (pdf)
Organisations
New Zealand Prostitutes Collective, Wellington
Catherine Healy, NZPC
End Child
Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes
(ECPAT)
Every Child's Right
- Freedom from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
CATW New
Shadow
report for the CEDAW committee on New Zealand 2007 (pdf)
Books
Board of Health
(1922) Venereal Diseases in New Zealand
Jordan, J (1991) Working Girls: Women in the New Zealand Sex Industry
Penguin.
Antje Kampf (2007), Mapping out the
Venereal Wilderness: Public Health and STD in New Zealand, 1920-1980 , Lit,
Berlin
Book chapters
Theses
Lucas,
Heather, ‘“Square Girls”: Prostitutes and Prostitution in
Whiteside, Heidi, 'We shall be respectable',
MA, University of Canterbury, 2007
Last updated: April 26, 2011
Dr Michael Goodyear,
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