Perspectives on rape in the Canadian sex industry: Navigating the terrain between sex work as labour and sex work as violence paradigms

Canadian Woman Studies

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 128-135

  Durisin, Elya M ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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