Saturday, April 14, 2007

Book Launch- Call Girls: Private Sex Workers in Australia

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 / 6.00 for 6.30pm

Roberta Perkins, Frances Lovejoy
Call Girls: Private Sex Workers in Australia
Published by: UWA Press
To be launched by Janelle Fawkes

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe
Cost: Free
RSVP: gleebooks - 9660 2333

A comprehensive study of women working in the Australian sex industry - usually outside of brothels and often via telephone from home (thus their name). Call Girls provides fascinating and frank accounts from women working in this shadowy, clandestine world: how they became sex workers and run their businesses; what frustrates and frightens them; how they maintain their health; who their customers are; and how their work affects their relationships with partners, lovers and/or families. Call Girls makes for surprising and challenging reading and, most importantly, places the world of the sex worker within political and legal contexts which will surprise and change the preconceived notions of many readers.

About the authors: Roberta Perkins is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at The University of New South Wales. 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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