SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Subcommittee On International Organizations Of The Committee On International Relations, Street Prostitution, Radical Feminism
8 Aug 2013
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Focus on the individual: the badgley report: badgley committee report (committee on sexual offences against. > not all women who enter prostitution have been abused; enter by choice; women know that they are valued for beauty+bodies enter by choice to make good $ Focus on the structure of society: feminist debate and the fraser report: feminist argument about the consequences of a patriarchal society: Poverty-stricken women - few alternatives; feminists call for long-term elimination of prostitution because it represents the exploitation of women > Best solution: eliminate prostitution; stick with sisters, support them, hopefully in future we can end the need for prostitution: fraser committee (special committee on pornography and prostitution. 1985): stressed earning power, inequalities in job opportunities, and sexual socialization as factors in prostitution > lots of 17526 to be made in prostitution; should not criminalize them but rehabilitate them; decriminalize it and help them.
