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Sex work is often a topic of lively debate, both in academic and public settings, with discussions around morality, laws and exploitation often creating a noisy discursive space. What is often missing in these discussions is the voices of sex workers themselves, particularly such a diverse range of voices as those found in Caren Wilton's collection, My Body, My Business: New Zealand Sex Workers in an Era of Change. This book is a collection of eleven life stories from current and former sex workers in New Zealand, based on a series of oral history interviews conducted by Wilton (an oral historian) between 2009 and 2018, framed by simple yet evocative photographs taken by Madeleine Slavick.

This article explores sex workers' experiences of work conditions and job mobility in the indoor sectors of the Australian sex industry: brothel work, escort work and small cooperative work. Drawing from 14 in-depth life-narrative interviews with sex workers and former sex workers, it explores the key challenges faced by participants in navigating regulation and carving out a safe and lucrative working space. It offers a critical account of job flexibility and mobility in the sex industry and argues that the availability of increased options in a decriminalized setting means a greater range of potential spaces for workers to negotiate a suitable work environment. ; Peer Reviewed

This article explores sex workers' experiences of work conditions and job mobility in the indoor sectors of the Australian sex industry: brothel work, escort work and small cooperative work. Drawing from 14 in-depth life-narrative interviews with sex workers and former sex workers, it explores the key challenges faced by participants in navigating regulation and carving out a safe and lucrative working space. It offers a critical account of job flexibility and mobility in the sex industry and argues that the availability of increased options in a decriminalized setting means a greater range of potential spaces for workers to negotiate a suitable work environment.

While numerous historians have questioned the assumption that the 1950s were wholly conservative in terms of gender politics, few have systematically explored the nuances of debates over motherhood in particular. This article asks how depictions of motherhood in two popular New Zealand magazines reflected multiple voices that spoke of the complexities of mothers' experiences and broader ideologies of motherhood during this era. It develops the concept of "dialectics of motherhood" in order to account for the interwoven ways in which sophisticated debates over "good" and "bad" mothers helped to propel social changes that led to the second-wave feminist movement.

Introduction / Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour and Anita Gibbs -- Feminist criminology / Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour -- Gender and victimology: a necessary pairing / Jan Jordan -- Gender, criminal law and violence against women: mapping the limits of legal interventions and approaches to reform / Kate Fitz-Gibbon -- Women in the criminal justice system / Kate Seymour -- Sex work, feminism and the legal system: Aotearoa in a global context / Lynzi Armstrong -- Women, crime and the media / Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour -- Violence against women in true crime podcasts: beyond representation and on to justice in the late-modern landscape / Laura Vitus -- Restorative justice in the context of gender-based violence and harm / Andrea Păroşanu -- Punishment in the community: community sentences and gender / Anita Gibbs -- Post-prison experiences and women / Kirsten Gibson -- Women, incarceration and settler colonial control / Tracey McIntosh -- Queer criminology / Angela Dwyer -- Women and girls with neurodisabilities and mental health issues in the criminal justice system / Anita Gibbs -- "Nothing about us, without us": centring the voices of criminalised women / Debbie Kilroy and Suzi Quixley -- Women and crimmigration / Brandy Cochrane -- Feminist prison abolitionism / Ti Lamusse -- Conclusion / Anita Gibbs and Fairleigh Evelyn Gilmour.

More than 15 years have passed since the law regarding sex workers in New Zealand has changed. As a model it has been endorsed as best practice by international organisations, leading scholars and sex worker-led organisations. Yet in some corners, speculation is ongoing regarding its impacts on the ground. Written by an international group of experts, this groundbreaking collection provides the much needed in-depth research into how decriminalisation is playing out in sex workers' lives and how different groups of sex workers are experiencing it, while uncovering the challenges and tensions that remain to be negotiated in this field. Using the evidence from New Zealand, it makes an invaluable contribution to the international debates regarding sex work laws and the global struggle to realise sex workers' rights