Women's Health, Studies, and Feminism
Sex
Work: Research and Resources
Index
Ethics
Journals
Methodology
News
Selected Researchers’ and Advocates’ Websites
UK Network of Sex Work Projects (UKNSWP)
Resource Collection (University of the West of
Scotland)
UK Centre of Excellence in Sex Work Research
and Policy
Regional Convenors: Kate Hardy, Nicola Smith
Belinda Brooks-Gordon
(Psychology), Anthony Grayling (Philosophy), Petra Boynton (Primary Care and Population Sciences), Graham Scambler (Behavioual and Social Sciences in Medicine), Sophie Day (Anthropology), Helen Ward (Infectious Diseases), Kate Hardy (Geography), Sian Oram (Public Health and Policy) School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Prabha Kotiswaran (Law - Oriental and African Studies)
Nick Mai (European Transformations), London Metropolitan, Giulia Garofalo (Social Sciences, Media and
Cultural Studies) UEL, Ron Roberts (Arts and Social Sciences) Kingston,
Jeffrey Weeks, Allan
Tyler, Roger
Matthews (Social and Policy Studies) Southbank, Carrie Hamilton
(Research in Sex, Gender and Sexuality) Meg Arnot (History) Roehampton
(L to R: Brooks-Gordon,
Grayling, Boynton, Scambler, Day, Ward, Hardy, Oram, Kotiswaran, Mai)
Other
Teela Sanders, Julie Ham
(Sociology) Leeds, Maggie O'Neill
(Social Sciences)[1] Phil Hubbard, Mary Whowell (Geography) Loughborough, Jackie West (Sociology), Judith Squires (Politics), Bristol; Julia
O'Connell Davidson (Sociology and Social Policy) Vanessa Munro (Law)
Nottingham; Kate
Williams (Criminal
Justice) UCE Birmingham; Nicola Smith
(Political Science) Hera
Cook (History) Birmingham,
Jo
Phoenix, Nicole Westmarland (Sociology
and Criminology, Applied Social Sciences), Francisco Klauser (Geography) Durham;
Jenny Pearce (Applied Social Studies) Bedfordshire; Suzanne Jenkins (Law) Keele;
Maureen Cain (Criminology), Julia
Laite (History), Megan Rivers-Moore (PPSIS) Cambridge; Anne Robinson (Community Justice) Sheffield Hallam; Susan Jolly (Participation, Power
and Social Change), Jo Doezema, Institute
of Development Studies; Bridget
Anderson (Migration
Policy) Oxford;
Alyson Brown (History) Edge Hill, Colleen
Moore (Criminology) Anglia
Ruskin; John Davies (Centre for Migration Research) Sussex; Nicoletta Policek (Policy Studies) Lincoln, Marina DellaGiusta (Economics) Reading, Chris
Ashford (Law) Sunderland;
Victoria
Millin (Criminal Justice) Kent;
Rosie Campbell, Justin Gaffney, Hilary
Kinnell, Tuppy Owens, Laura Seebohn, Ruth Thomas UKNSWP; Mark Adams, Julia Bindman, Simon Flacks, Suzanne Hammond, Katie Hickman, Jane Pitcher, Helen
Self, Catherine Stevens, Laura Agustín, Elizabeth Pisani, Peter
Tatchell, George
McCoy
(L
to R: O’Neill, Squires, Hubbard, Whowell, O’Connell Davidson,
Munro, Williams, Smith, Cook, Phoenix, Westmarland, Klauser, Pearce, Jenkins, Laite,
Rivers-Moore, Robinson, Jolly, Doezema, Anderson, Brown, Moore, Policek,
DellaGiusta, Ashford, Kinnell, Pisani, Tatchell)
Selected Centres
Gender, Sexuality and
Law Research Group (Keele)
(Scoular, Hepburn)
Jane
Scoular (Law) Strathclyde, Linda Cusick, (Applied
Social & Health Research), West of
(Sagar)
Tracey
Sagar, Social Policy, Swansea
Nikki
Jeal, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Cardiff
(Outshoorn, Nencel)
Joyce
Outshoorn (Political Science) Leiden; Lorraine Nencel (Social Sciences) Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam ; Ine Vanwesenbeeck, Rutgers Nisso Groep, Utrecht
Alexandra Oliveira (Psychology and Educational Sciences)
Porto, Madalena Duarte (Social Studies),
(Oliveira,
Johanna
Kantola (Political Science), Anne Maria Holli (Law) Helsinki; Anna
Kontula (Sociology),
Tampere, Elina Ihamäki (Karelian Institute) Joensuu; Marjut Jyrkinen (Management and Organization) Hanken; Gwenaelle Bauvois
(Kantola, Holli, Kontula, Bauvois)
Norway
May-Len Skilbrei, Irina
Polyakova (Sociology) Oslo
Charlotta Holmström (Social Work) Malmö; Yvonne Svanström (Economic History) Stockholm; Susanne Dodillet (Literature, History of ideas and Religion) Gothenberg
(Holmström,
Svanström, Dodillet)
Judit Strömpl, (Social
Policy) Tartu
Canadian Centre of Excellence in Sex Work Research and Policy
STAR: Sex Trade Advocacy and Research
(Shannon, Childs, Lowman, O’Doherty, Benoit)
Kate Shannon (Epidemiology) Mary Childs (Law) U British Columbia, John Lowman, Tamara O'Doherty
(Criminology) Simon Fraser, Cecilia Benoit, Michelle Bass
(Sociology) Victoria, Jeana Tallentire (History) Fraser Valley
Alan Young (Law), Kemala Kempadoo (Womens’ Studies), Deborah Brock (Sociology),
Anna Agathangelou
(Political Science) York; Audrey Macklin (Law) Toronto, Treena Orchard (Health
Studies) Western Ontario; Sandra Ka Hon Chu Canadian HIV/AIDS legal Network
(Young, Kempadoo, Brock, Agathangelou, Macklin, Orchard,
Emily van der Meulen
(Women’s Studies) Queen’s
(Bruckert,
Bretzlaff)
Colette Parent and Christine Bruckert
(Criminology),
Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale, Jaqueline Lewis (Sociology and Anthropology) Windsor
Frances Shaver (Sociology) Concordia
Atlantic
Leslie
Jeffrey, Political Science,
Gayle
MacDonald, Sociology,
Dalhousie
Charlotte Loppie, Lois Jackson (Health and Human
Performance), Catrina Brown (Social
Work)
(Loppie, Jackson)
Meredith
Ralston (Women’s
Studies), Ardath
Whynacht
(International Office)
Bebe Loff, Human Rights & Bioethics,
Monash
Raelene Frances, History, UNSW
Writing the history of prostitution
Others
Sandra Egger (Law) UNSW; Kate Gleeson (Law) Maquarie; Basil Donovan (Public Health) Sydney; Roberta Perkins
(Egger, Gleeson, Donovan)
Interview with Basil Donovan and Julie Bates. Good Weekend November 2007
Barbara Sullivan
(Political Science)
Belinda Carpenter (Law) QUT
Jan Jordan, Lynzi
Armstrong (Criminology), Pat
Mayhew, Elaine Mossman (Crime and Justice Research Centre)
Gillian Abel, Cheryl Brunton, Lisa Fitzgerald (Public Health)
(Jordan, Mayhew, Mossman, Abel, Brunton, Fitzgerald)
Ronald Weitzer
Flawed theory and method in studies of prostitution.
Violence Against Women 2005 (pdf)
(And
subsequent papers in Violence against Women 11(7) July 2005)
New directions in research on prostitution.
Crime Law Social Change 2005 (pdf)
Teela Sanders
Getting the green light for red light
research 2006 (Word)
Methodological nuances in researching the
female sex industry. Sexualities 2006 (abstract)
Becoming a sex work researcher (from Sex Work: A Risky
Business 2005)
Frances Shaver
Ethical challenges in research on sex work -
a bibliography. Yale 2005 (pdf)
Bebe Loff: Research Ethics, in M Ditmore (ed.)
Encyclopedia of Prostitution 2006. pp 395-8
Wendy McElroy: Prostitution - Reconsidering
Research. Spintech 1999
Research
for Sex Work (pdf)
Sex
workers health, HIV/AIDS, ethical issues, care and research. Issue 7, 2004
SWOP: How to be an ally to sex workers
Elizabeth Wood & Renegade
Revolution: Building Bridges and Alliances Sex 2.0 May 2009 (Video)
Outline Building Bridges and Alliances between Sex
Worker Communities, researchers & clients.
Wood and Goodyear: Bridging communities in sex work research. SSSS June 2009 (Powerpoint)
Books
O'Connell Davidson J.,
Layder D. Methods, Sex and Madness. Routledge, London 1994
“I
could write a thesis on people’s reaction to my thesis!”
Julia Laite. The
Independent September 15 2005
Gender,
Sexuality and Law Research Group (Keele)
Wednesday 17th October 2007: Sex work: Regulating the many faces of sexual labour 1-5.30pm, Chancellor’s Building, Keele, Room CBA 1.102.
With: John Scott,
University of New England, Australia, Teela Sanders, University of
Leeds, Vanessa Munro, University of Nottingham, Kay Good, X talk
project, Jane Pitcher, Independent researcher and volunteer, West
Midlands sex worker support service, Becky Adams, Becky’s Kittens
massage parlour, Ariana Chevalier, Escort, Suzanne Jenkins, Keele
University. Programme and abstracts (word)
(click to enlarge)
Centre
for Labour Studies (Simon Fraser)
November 16-17 2007: Labour
on the Margins
Last updated: 2/8/2010 5:39:00 PM
Links checked
April 19 2007
Dr Michael
Goodyear,
For any problems, please contact: mgoodyear@dal.ca