BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- DEDICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 the traffic in women, feminism and the league of nations -- Did the White Slave Traffic exist? -- Trafficking and international law up to 1914 -- Trafficking at the League of Nations -- What was the traffic in women? -- The feminist analysis -- The prevention of prostitution -- Woman-blaming -- Pursuit of the equal moral standard: tactical limitations -- CHAPTER 2 the revolt of the johns: prostitution and the sexual revolution -- Sexology -- Constructing the sexuality of prostitution -- The history of prostitution -- Rehabilitating Victorian prostitution -- The sociology of prostitution -- Prostitution and sexual freedom -- CHAPTER 3 normalising prostitution: the prostitutes' rights movement -- Birth of the prostitutes' rights movement -- International organising -- A queer perspective -- The feminist controversy -- Hostility to feminism -- Prostitution performance art: public relations for the sex industrialists -- CHAPTER 4 homosexuality and prostitution -- Sexual minorities -- Differences between male and female prostitution -- Transsexual prostitution -- Gay male defence of pornography -- Prostitution in lesbian politics -- CHAPTER 5 prostitution as "choice" -- The idea of choice in liberal theory -- Choice as consent in prostitution -- Blaming the victim -- Sexual and reproductive liberalism and choice -- Choice and women's agency: a post-modern approach -- Victimism -- The limitations on choice -- Believing women -- Beyond choice: understanding oppression -- CHAPTER 6 just a job like any other? prostitution as "work" -- What kind of work is prostitution? -- The dignity of work? -- Prostitution as an equal contractual arrangement -- What characteristics does prostitution share with slavery?.

Prostitution is a construction of male supremacy -- A profound experience of the body -- The implications of accepting prostitution as work -- Prostitution is not just a job like any other -- CHAPTER 7 'why cars? who's driving?' prostitution and the theorising of sexuality -- Essentialism -- Social construction -- The sexual politics of meaninglessness: symbolic interactionism and post-structuralism -- Radical feminism -- Equal opportunities feminism -- CHAPTER 8 prostitution as "sex" -- Prostitution and male sexuality -- Prostitution as "sex" for women -- Stigma -- Sexual intercourse -- Pornography and prostitution -- Prostitution and the construction of sexuality -- CHAPTER 9 prostitution as male sexual violence -- Definitions -- The power of naming -- Unpaid violence in prostitution -- Connection between childhood sexual abuse and prostitution -- Prostitution is commercial sexual violence -- Varieties of sexual violence in prostitution -- Sexual harassment -- Effects of prostitution and sexual violence -- Dissociation -- CHAPTER 10 sexual violence, feminist human rights theory and the omission of prostitution -- Scepticism about rights -- The feminist challenge to the concept of international human rights -- Human rights and violence against women -- Why has prostitution been omitted? -- Military sexual slavery -- The way forward -- CHAPTER 11 trafficking, prostitution and human rights -- The traffic in women today -- 1949 Convention -- The pro-prostitution position on trafficking -- Prostitution and the international human rights community -- The anti-prostitution position on trafficking -- The Convention Against Sexual Exploitation -- Penalising the perpetrators -- CONCLUSION: universalising prostitution -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.