Twelve-step feminism makes sex workers sick: How the state and the recovery movement turn radical women into "Useless Citizens"

Sex Work and Sex Workers

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 7-36

  Lerum, Kari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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