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Playing the whore: the work of sex work

Jane Kelly — 2016-04-10T23:16:06Z

Written by a journalist and former sex worker, this book turns on its head the commonplace approach to sex work. Rather than discrediting the workers and their clients, or calling on police to arrest clients leaving sex workers without any means of survival, this argues for the legalisation of sex work and its clients. She argues that sex work is work and sex workers are at work.

- Reviews section / Women, LGBT, Reviews

Postmodernism and Feminism

Jane Kelly — 2012-09-10T10:53:04Z

The term postmodernism has entered into common currency with a rapidity that modernism, “after” which it is named, never achieved: it has a trendy contemporaneity but is little understood. Partly through its description of reality as a series of images, or “simulacra” in Baudrillard's word, it has attained popular cultural status in the media, especially television, as well as modish respectability in the academy, across Europe and North America.

- Feminism / Women, Sexual politics, Features

Alliances and Coalitions in Britain: ˜Stop the War” and “Respect”

Jane Kelly, Karen O'Toole — 2005-04-16T18:11:38Z

Two members of the leadership of the ISG in Britain take issue with criticisms which Gilbert Achcar made of Trotskyists in Britain.

- Marxism and Religion / Marxism, Britain, Religion, Debate section