Alison J Murray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3804462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison J Murray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison J |
| FAMILY NAME | Murray |
| SIGNATURE | MURRAY A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Debt-Bondage and Trafficking
Many people have been misled into thinking that trafficking are enormous problems for Australia and Southeast Asia. If all prostitution is violence against women, it seems that any migration of sex workers can become "trafficking", as in Coalition member Sheila Jeffreys&s; statement: "As men use women in sex tourism in different countries they then demand these women to be trafficked into their country". The women are described as fleeing the rep…
Pink Fits
Pre-text Sex work, research & power Outline Theoretical bases & spaces Sexual subcultures Globalising sexualities & identity politics Global restructuring & sex worker identities AIDS discourses Identity politics, subculture & space Thai sex workers in Sydney Arriving in Sydney Background of Thai workers Working conditions & health Clients & the sex industry hierarchy Dying for a fuck: AIDS in Indonesia Sexuality & sex work in the regime of truth…
Let Them Take Ecstasy
Minding Your Peers and Queers
Sex workers have been incorporated into the Western AIDS discourse initially as a category of 'risk group'. The model of 'peer education' developed successfully by gay men in the West has been used with sex workers in Australia and is being exported to South-east Asia. This paper shows that the role of the 'peer educator' is paradoxical, and embedded in locally specific laws, cultural factors and power relations involving the sex industry. Ignori…
Sydney's Asian Sex Workers
As increased awareness of HIV/AIDS has led to an insistence on the use of condoms among Australian sex workers, the continuing client demand for non-condom using prostitutes is being met mostly by Asian women who have begun working in Sydney since the 1980s. Research for this paper has involved discussions with over 100 Asian sex workers, mostly Thai. These women have the least autonomy in the sex industry and can be described as an ‘underclass’.…
Minding Your Peers and Queers
Sex workers have been incorporated into the Western AIDS discourse initially as a category of 'risk group'. The model of 'peer education' developed successfully by gay men in the West has been used with sex workers in Australia and is being exported to South-east Asia. This paper shows that the role of the 'peer educator' is paradoxical, and embedded in locally specific laws, cultural factors and power relations involving the sex industry. Ignori…
Let Them Take Ecstasy
Sydney's Asian Sex Workers
As increased awareness of HIV/AIDS has led to an insistence on the use of condoms among Australian sex workers, the continuing client demand for non-condom using prostitutes is being met mostly by Asian women who have begun working in Sydney since the 1980s. Research for this paper has involved discussions with over 100 Asian sex workers, mostly Thai. These women have the least autonomy in the sex industry and can be described as an ‘underclass’.…
Minding Your Peers and Queers
Sex workers have been incorporated into the Western AIDS discourse initially as a category of 'risk group'. The model of 'peer education' developed successfully by gay men in the West has been used with sex workers in Australia and is being exported to South-east Asia. This paper shows that the role of the 'peer educator' is paradoxical, and embedded in locally specific laws, cultural factors and power relations involving the sex industry. Ignori…
Pink Fits
Pre-text Sex work, research & power Outline Theoretical bases & spaces Sexual subcultures Globalising sexualities & identity politics Global restructuring & sex worker identities AIDS discourses Identity politics, subculture & space Thai sex workers in Sydney Arriving in Sydney Background of Thai workers Working conditions & health Clients & the sex industry hierarchy Dying for a fuck: AIDS in Indonesia Sexuality & sex work in the regime of truth…
Let Them Take Ecstasy
Debt-Bondage and Trafficking
Many people have been misled into thinking that trafficking are enormous problems for Australia and Southeast Asia. If all prostitution is violence against women, it seems that any migration of sex workers can become "trafficking", as in Coalition member Sheila Jeffreys&s; statement: "As men use women in sex tourism in different countries they then demand these women to be trafficked into their country". The women are described as fleeing the rep…
Sex work and related issues (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sex work (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · China (2 works) · Debt (2 works) · Demography (2 works)