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flesh mapping: vancouver markets pacific women – background

Starting from our position that prostitution is neither necessary nor desired by women and represents at best the “constrained choices” of women, we explore what are the links between the local demand of men for prostitution and the global traffic in girls and women.

November 2008
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ProstitutionWomen's Movement
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flesh mapping: vancouver markets pacific women – video
November 2008
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Women's MovementProstitution
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Press Release: International Gathering Denounces the Promotion to Legalize Prostitution
May 29, 2008
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Routes of Recruitment: Pimps’ Techniques and Other Circumstances That Lead to Street Prostitution

A summary of Routes of Recruitment: Pimps' Techniques and Other Circumstances That Lead to Street Prostitution

2007
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ProstitutionStatistics
Prostitution of Indigenous Women: Sex Inequality and the Colonization of Canada’s First Nations Women

Prostitution is intimately associated with sex inequality, poverty, racism and colonialism. Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, one of the poorest areas in North America, is referred to as the “urban reserve” by its First Nations residents.

By Melissa Farley, Ph.D & Jacqueline Lynne
2005
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Resisting the Promotion of Prostitution in Canada: A View from the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter

Published in Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography, edited by Christine Stark and Rebecca Whisnant

2004
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Front LineProstitution
10 Reasons for Not Legalizing Prostitution
By Janice G. Raymond, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women International (CATW)
March 25, 2003
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Reject Red Light Districts as a Solution to Violence Against Women

On paper, women may have achieved formal have equality. Feminists won laws on violence, affirmative action, and charter protection for equality. A government approved red light district will reverse that legal ground. Anti-Sexual harassment policies are impossible to apply when the woman’s job is to be nude and available to any man in the establishment.

By Suzanne Jay
March 1, 2003
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ProstitutionFront Line
Prostitution: Where Racism and Sexism Intersect

Racism makes Black women and girls especially vulnerable to sexual exploitation and keeps them trapped in the sex industry. It does this by limiting educational and career opportunities for African-Americans in this country. It does this through a welfare system that has divided the poor Black family. If a mother works, or her children’s father contributes to their support, her check and food stamps are cut by that amount. Thus, poor Black women are left alone to find for themselves and their children on inadequate Aid to Families with Children grants.

By Vednita Nelson
1993
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Women of ColourProstitution
Prostitution and Male Supremacy
By Andrea Dworkin
October 31, 1992
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