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Global Flesh Mapping: Day 4

To achieve a woman’s world, the kind that this conference invokes with its name, feminists must build a global, independent women’s movement in which the central objective is to call upon women around the world to participate in the liberation of all women.

July 2011

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Press Release: Prostitution Poses a Fundamental Threat to Women’s Security

It is both illogical and counter to the principles of fundamental justice to decriminalize the men who exploit the prostitution of others under the pretext of protecting prostituted women from these same men.

June 16, 2011

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Address to the People’s Tribunal on Commercial Sexual Exploitation

We know from more than forty years of observing and fighting to end wife assault and rape that each act of sexist violence combines to create a force that terrorizes not only that particular battered, raped or prostituted woman in the present and into her future, but it also makes of her subjugation, an example with which to terrorize even those women who were not attacked, were not battered or raped this time, not this time brought to our knees.

By Lee Lakeman

March 2011

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Feminist Lesbian Position on Prostitution

Prostitution enforces compulsory heterosexuality by teaching men that they have the right to access women’s bodies on their terms and to expect prostitution-like behaviour from other women. Lesbianism, by contrast, can create more sexual autonomy for women by providing an alternative for some women that is also an example to society of sexuality that is not male-controlled.

By Kathleen Piovesan, Jacqueline Gullion and Erin Graham

February 23, 2011

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Not Work, Not Crime: Who are the True Agents in Prostitution?

Prostitution is a prime example of how the forces of sexism, poverty, and racism serve as a vice grip on women’s freedom. I maintain that all three issues must be addressed to abolish it. A good start would be to decriminalize prostituted women, and enforce the criminalization of johns and pimps. Legitimating this exploitation by labeling it work, does not serve the equality interests of women.

By Daisy Kler

November 2010

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Front Line Prostitution

The VPD review of the Mistakes in the Cases of the Missing Women and the Pickton Murders

The missing were Women, many Aboriginal Women, the friends and neighbours and even beat cops who reported them gone feared Violence against Women. Those fears were based on the vulnerability of women in prostitution, the violence of men buying sex, the viciousness of sexualized racism toward Aboriginal women on Vancouver streets and the prevalence of all forms of Violence against Women. Their fears have been proved horribly insightful.

By Lee Lakeman

August 22, 2010

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Criminal Justice System Indigenous Women Prostitution

Abolishing Prostitution through Economic, Physical and Political Security for Women

By Lee Lakeman

2009

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Abolishing Prostitution Through Economic, Physical and Political Security for Women (2009)

By Lee Lakeman

2009

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Prostitution Women's Poverty & Economic Security

Aboriginal Women’s Action Network on Prostitution

By Aboriginal Women’s Action Network (AWAN)

2009

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Indigenous Women Prostitution

flesh mapping: vancouver markets pacific women – the process

For 7 months we met, discovered, discussed and investigated links between the international trafficking of women and the Vancouver demand for prostitution. We settled on bed sheets as an artistic unit, a canvas and a bed as our uniting display. The artists worked with us to facilitate the transfer of thoughts and ideas onto the 50 sheets.

December 2008

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Select Tag

Global Flesh Mapping: Day 4

To achieve a woman’s world, the kind that this conference invokes with its name, feminists must build a global, independent women’s movement in which the central objective is to call upon women around the world to participate in the liberation of all women.

Press Release: Prostitution Poses a Fundamental Threat to Women’s Security

It is both illogical and counter to the principles of fundamental justice to decriminalize the men who exploit the prostitution of others under the pretext of protecting prostituted women from these same men.

Address to the People’s Tribunal on Commercial Sexual Exploitation

Feminist Lesbian Position on Prostitution

Not Work, Not Crime: Who are the True Agents in Prostitution?

The VPD review of the Mistakes in the Cases of the Missing Women and the Pickton Murders

Abolishing Prostitution through Economic, Physical and Political Security for Women

Abolishing Prostitution Through Economic, Physical and Political Security for Women (2009)

Aboriginal Women’s Action Network on Prostitution

flesh mapping: vancouver markets pacific women – the process

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