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Prostitution

Allen, Judith. “The Making of a Prostitute Proletariat in Early Twentieth-Century New South Wales.” In So Much Hard Work: Women and Prostitution in Australian History, edited by Kay Daniels, 192-232. Sydney: Fontana Books, 1984.

Arnot, Meg. “The Oldest Profession in New Britannia.” In Constructing a Culture: A People’s History of Australia since 1788, edited by Verity Burgmann and Jenny Lee, 46-62. Fitzroy: Penguin Books, 1988.

Barclay, E. “Queensland’s Contagious Diseases Act, 1868: ‘The Act for the Encouragement of Vice’, and Some Nineteenth Century Attempts to Repeal It, Part Ii.” Queensland Heritage 3, no. 1 (November 1974): 21-29.

Barclay, E. “Queensland’s Contagious Diseases Act, 1868: The Act for the Encouragement of Vice and Some Nineteenth Century Attempts to Repeal It, Part I.” Queensland Heritage 2, no. 10 (May 1974): 27-34.

Bracey, Lucy Jean. “Fitzroy and the ‘Social Evil’: A Study of Prostitution in Fitzroy During the Late Nineteenth Century.” In Reflections of Fitzroy, edited by Shane Horan, 49-68. (Melbourne: University of Melbourne School of Historical Studies, 2008.)

Dalley, Bronwyn. “‘Fresh Attractions’: White Slavery and Feminism in New Zealand, 1885-1918.” Women’s History Review 9, no. 3 (2000): 585-606.

Dalley, Bronwyn. “Lolly Shops ‘of the Red-Light Kind’ and ‘Soldiers of the King’: Suppressing One-Woman Brothels in New Zealand, 1908-1916.” New Zealand Journal of History 30, no. 1 (1996): 3-23.

Daniels, Kay. “Prostitution in Tasmania During the Transition from Penal Settlement to ‘Civilized’ Society.” In So Much Hard Work: Women and Prostitution in Australian History, edited by Kay Daniels, 15-86. Sydney: Fontana Books, 1984.

Davidson, Raelene. “Dealing with the ‘Social Evil’: Prostitution and the Police in Perth and on the Eastern Goldfields, 1895-1924.” In So Much Hard Work: Women and Prostitution in Australian History, edited by Kay Daniels, 162-91. Sydney: Fontana Books, 1984.

Evans, Raymond. “’Soiled Doves’: Prostitution in Colonial Queensland.” In So Much Hard Work: Women and Prostitution in Australian History, edited by Kay Daniels, 127-61. Sydney: Fontana Books, 1984.

Finch, Lynette. The Classing Gaze: Sexuality, Class and Surveillance.  St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1993.

Frances, Raelene and Gray, Alicia. “Unsatisfactory, Discriminatory, Unjust and Inviting Corruption: Feminists and the Decriminalisation of Street Prostitution in New South Wales.” Australian Feminist Studies 22, no. 53 (2007): 307-24.

Frances, Raelene. ‘Sex Trafficking, Labour Migration, and the State’. Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives, edited by Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2019. 114-130.

Frances, Raelene. “’White Slaves’ and White Australia: Prostitution and Australian Society.” Australian Feminist Studies 19, no. 33 (2004): 185-200.

Frances, Raelene. “Australian Prostitution in International Context.” Australian Historical Studies, no. 106 (1996): 127-41.

Frances, Raelene. “The History of Female Prostitution in Australia.” In Sex Work & Sex Workers in Australia, edited by Roberta Perkins, 27-52. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1994.

Frances, Raelene. Selling Sex: A Hidden History of Prostitution.  Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2007.

Frances, Simon Adams and Raelene. “Lifting the Veil: The Sex Industry, Museums and Galleries.” Labour History, no. 85 (November 2003): 47-64.

Golder, Hilary, and Judith Allen. “Prostitution in New South Wales 1870-1932: Re-Structuring an Industry.” Refractory Girl 18 (December 1979): 17-24.

Horan, Susan. “More Sinned against Than Sinning? Prostitution in South Australia, 1836-1914.” In So Much Hard Work: Women and Prostitution in Australian History, edited by Kay Daniels, 87-126. Sydney: Fontana Books, 1984.

Levine, Phillippa. Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire. (New York; London: Routledge, 2003).

McConville, Chris. “The Location of Melbourne’s Prostitutes, 1870-1920.” Australian Historical Studies 19, no. 74 (1980): 86-97.

McKewon, Elaine. The Scarlet Mile: A Social History of Prostitution in Kalgoorlie, 1894-2004.  Crawley: University of Western Australia Press, 2005.

Minchinton, Barbara, and Sarah Hayes. “Brothels and Sex Workers: Variety, Complexity and Change in Nineteenth-Century Little Lon, Melbourne.” Australian Historical Studies 51, no. 2 (2020): 165-83.

Morris, John. “The Japanese and the Aborigines: An Overview of the Efforts to Stop the Prostitution of Coastal and Island Women.” Journal of Northern Territory History, no. 21 (2010): 15-36.

Silverstein, Ben. “‘Possibly They Did Not Know Themselves’: The Ambivalent Government of Sex and Work in the Northern Territory Aboriginals Ordinance 1918.” History Australia 14, no. 3 (2017): 344-60.

Sissons, D. C. S. “Karayuki-San: Japanese Prostitutes in Australia, 1887-1916, I.” Historical Studies 17, no. 68 (1977): 323-41.

Sissons, D. C. S. “Karayuki-San: Japanese Prostitutes in Australia, 1887-1916, II.” Historical Studies 17, no. 69 (1977): 474-88.

Straw, Leigh S. L. Drunks, Pests and Harlots: Criminal Women in Perth and Fremantle, 1900-1939.  Kilkerran: Humming Earth, 2013.

Straw, Leigh. ““The Worst Female Character”: Criminal Underclass Women in Perth and Fremantle, 1900–1939.” Journal of Australian Studies 37, no. 2 (2013): 208-24.

Straw, Leigh. The Worst Woman in Sydney: The Life and Crimes of Kate Leigh.  Sydney: NewSouth, 2016.

Sullivan, Barbara. The Politics of Sex: Prostitution and Pornography in Australia since 1945.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Tisdale, Julie. “Venereal Disease and the Policing of the Amateur in Melbourne During World War I.” Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 9 (1996): 33-50.

Wimshurst, Kerry. “Age, Prostitution and Punishment in the Late-Nineteenth Century.” Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 47, no. 1 (2013): 1-21.

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