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Oral History Review 2008 35(1):102-104; doi:10.1093/ohr/ohn005
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Talk Back: Sex Workers in the Maritimes

Wendy Rickard

London South Bank University

TALK BACK: SEX WORKERS IN THE MARITIMES. By Leslie Ann Jeffrey and Gayle MacDonald. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: University of British Columbia Press, 2007. 1273 pp. Softbound, $29.95.

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Gayle MacDonald (a sociologist) and Leslie-Ann Jeffrey (associate professor of history and politics) interviewed sixty sex workers in three cities in the Maritimes region of Canada: Halifax, Saint John, and Moncton, as well as some police, health, and community workers and politicians. This book presents in-depth extracts of those interviews, with a commentary drawing on critical political analysis. It is not an oral history book per se. But it skillfully blends these oral sources with a thorough critique of a range of good sex work literature. In common with most other sex work oral history, the authors take an explicit and acknowledged stance that draws on the insights of sex radicalism and pro-rights feminism, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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