Overview
This international anthology brings together research, heartbreaking personal stories from survivors of the sex industry, and theory from over thirty women and men – activists, survivors, academics and journalists. Not For Sale is groundbreaking in its breadth, analysis and honesty.
Full Product Details
Author: Stark Christine ,
Whisnant Rebecca
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Imprint: Spinifex Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 22.80cm
Weight: 0.580kg
ISBN: 9781876756499
ISBN 10: 1876756497
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 13 October 2004
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""As this brilliant and timely collection makes clear, men who respect and value women--not to mention social justice and human rights--must not avert our eyes from the sexual exploitation of women and children all around us."" --Jackson Katz, cofounder, Mentors in Violence Prevention"
As this brilliant and timely collection makes clear, men who respect and value women--not to mention social justice and human rights--must not avert our eyes from the sexual exploitation of women and children all around us. --Jackson Katz, cofounder, Mentors in Violence Prevention
Author Information
Christine Stark is a poet, writer, speaker, visual artist and activist of American Indian and European ancestry. Her work has been published in numerous periodicals and anthologies, including Prostitution, Trafficking and Traumatic Stress, The Florida Review, Poetry Motel, Poetry Midwest and Our Choices, Our Lives: Unapologetic Writings on Abortion. She is a co-editor of Not For Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography. She has spoken nationally and internationally and appeared on national TV and NPR's “Justice Talking”. She has also organized numerous community events on rape, racism, homelessness and poverty. Christine teaches Composition at a Minnesota State Community College in northern Minnesota. Christine is currently a member of the Minnesota Indian Women's Sexual Assault Coalition. Dr. Rebecca Whisnant, an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Dayton, is co-editor (with Christine Stark) of Not For Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography (Spinifex Press, 2004). She has published in ethics and feminist theory and has recently been named co-editor of several upcoming volumes for the Feminist Ethics and Social Theory Association (FEAST). A longtime anti-pornography educator, she has presented her slideshow and lecture “Exposing Pornography: A Feminist Perspective” to numerous college classes, conferences, and organizations.
