Sex Work and Civil Liberties: A Panel Discussion at Harvard Law School
I just got back from a New York State United Teachers conference and tomorrow I'm heading up to Cambridge to participate in a panel discussion about sex work and civil liberties. If you're in that area I'd love to see you there!
Sex Work and Civil Liberties: A Panel Discussion
Monday, 11/16, 5:30pm
Harvard Law School ACLU
Pound 107 (map of the law school campus: http://www.law.harvard.edu/about/map.html)
Featuring Vednita Carter, Dr. Melissa Farley, Dr. Samantha Majic, & Dr. Elizabeth Wood.
Moderated by Professor I. Glenn Cohen
Free and open to the public
Co-sponsored by American Constitution Society, Women's Law Association, & Harvard Law Students for Reproductive Justice
Re: Sex Work and Civil Liberties: A Panel Discussion
While this is a panel discussion and not a debate, this nonetheless sounds much more evenly matched than the "It's Wrong to Pay for Sex" debate put on by Intelligence Squared a few months back. It would be good to see Farley go up against somebody on the other side who has a current understanding of the issues involved. (Like you, for instance.)
Too bad I'm on the other side of the country, or I'd turn out for this. Any chance that there will be video or audio of this posted somewhere?
Wish you were there!
IACB your presence would have been so helpful! The audience was very much slanted toward the antiprostitution side and most were perfectly happy to conflate prostitution and rape and trafficking. It was unfortunate. There was only one questioner who came from a position critical of the antiprostitution side. The moderator did an excellent job of asking insightful questions but the audience really just wasn't having it. As for audio or video, there was none officially made but I did see several people with laptops and probably with web cams and wouldn't be surprised if there are many clips taken out of context.
...because public space really matters!
Elizabeth
Thank you
"most were perfectly happy to conflate prostitution and rape and trafficking"
:( I'm sorry to hear that. Thank you for participating and speaking from a different perspective. Were I closer geographically, I would have loved to be there too.
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Elizabeth,
you rocked it tonight at the law school. it would be great hear more from you; if you have any recommendations in the way of reading materials I would love to get my hands on it / them.
thanks for your brilliance & if you find yourself in need of a research assistant, well, you have my email.
jules
Best readings and reference lists
Jules, thank you. I wish you'd introduced yourself last night. And I don't have an email address for you so if you could please email me using the contact form on the site I'd be grateful for that!
You asked about reading materials and one of the best collections of references exists on the Sex Work Research and Books on Sex Work pages of Dr. Michael Goodyear's university web page:
http://myweb.dal.ca/mgoodyea/researchsex.htm
http://myweb.dal.ca/mgoodyea/booksex.htm
Hope to hear from you soon,
Elizabeth
...because public space really matters!
Elizabeth
You might want to have a look at this
I hadn't seen this paper before, but it looks intriguing and I wanted to point others to it:
"Prostitution 2.0: The Changing Face of Sex Work" by Scott Cunningham & Todd D. Kendall
Its in a non-peer-reviewed "working paper" form, but looks worthwhile nevertheless. Basically, it reviews evidence that prostitution in devoloped countries is moving away from street prostitution and generally changing the character of prostitution.
The author's CV links to a number of intersting-sounding papers on sex work, porn, media effects, and other social questions from an economics point of view:
http://www.toddkendall.net/
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