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Call Girls casts a penetrating, red light gaze upon the upper echelons of the world’s oldest profession – private sex workers who use the telephone as a means to solicit clients. Containing frank accounts from women working in the Australian sex industry, Call Girls puts a human face on this hitherto shadowy, clandestine world as it documents how many women became sex workers; run their businesses; maintain their health; and how the call girls’ work affects their relationships with husbands, lovers and families. Far-removed from the moralising, ‘victim’ stereotypes and Pretty Woman-inspired fantasies which pervade popular culture, Call Girls places the world of the sex worker within social, political and legal contexts which will surprise and change the preconceived notions of many readers.

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Roberta Perkins is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at The University of New South Wales. She has conducted many government-funded research projects on prostitution. Her books include Being a Prostitute (with Garry Bennett, 1985) and Sex Work and Sex Workers in Australia (1994). Frances Lovejoy is also a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at The University of New South Wales and is a co-editor of Sex Work and Sex Workers.

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