A Review of Stripped: Inside the Lives of Exotic Dancers

NPN’s Jendi Reiter reviews Bernadette Barton’s Stripped: Inside the Lives of Exotic Dancers (New York & London: New York University Press, 2006)… In the debate over the morality of stripping, each camp typically puts forward a one-sided image of the exotic dancer as victim, slut, or feminist heroine. Bernadette Barton, a sociology and women’s studies […]

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Newsweek: “A School for Johns”

An article from the July 24 issue of Newsweek shows, once again, that men’s attitudes and behaviors can be changed. San Francisco has a First Offender Prostitution Program that educates johns about prostituted women. A School for Johns…the day’s lineup at what is sometimes called “johns school” has a unique curriculum–a series of “scared straight” […]

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Congresswoman Jane Harman Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Halt Rape and Sexual Assault in the Military

We are pleased to reprint this press release from the office of Congresswoman Jane Harman: HARMAN INTRODUCES BIPARTISAN BILL TO HALT RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THE MILITARY Lawmaker says “a female soldier in Iraq is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire” July 29, 2008 Washington, D.C. […]

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