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Authors: Linda Lemoncheck

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sex work's role in encouraging, 110-13, 116, 120, 122, 143, 145, 146
Violence against Women Act, 197
against women of color, 169
and women's nontraditional sexual practices, 4, 42, 52, 68
women's responsibility for, 153, 157, 158, 195, 198, 203
See also
rape; sexual abuse of women
 
Page 308
sex work, 110-17
and business of sex, 120-21, 136
as career choice, 112, 113, 114-15, 137, 139
and care respect, 117, 127, 148-53
and coercion, 110-11, 116, 119, 120, 136, 147, 148, 149
conceptual issues, 18-21
context and social location for, 124-30, 134
as degradation of women, 7, 111-12, 114, 116, 117, 118, 120, 121, 122-30, 144, 149, 151, 153
as economically liberating, 113, 120, 121, 137, 138-42, 144, 148, 153
and economic discrimination against women, 32, 110, 111, 115, 116, 129, 134, 135, 140, 147, 153
feminist moralizing about, 114, 116, 117, 121, 128, 135, 137, 138, 140, 143, 147, 151
heterosexism in, 133
hierarchies within, 118

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