Academic Position: Qualifications:              Room: Building: Telephone:       Fax: Email:	Senior Lecturer in Political Science BDS, PhD. 558 General Purpose North 3 (#39A) +61 7 3365 7014 +61 7 3365 1388 barbara.sullivan@uq.edu.au

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Background:

Barbara Sullivan is an internationally acknowledged researcher on prostitution and trafficking. She has written extensively about Australian approaches to the management of prostitution via law and policy and has also conducted comparative work (Australia/UK/USA/Canada) in this area. Her particular focus is the impact of law and policy on women workers in the prostitution industry. Over the last two decades Australia has introduced some innovative law and policy in this area and has legalised prostitution in several jurisdictions. This development has been of interest to researchers (and governments) around the world and consequently, Barbara has frequently been invited to participate in conference panels and to contribute to publications. Recently, Barbara has also published on international law addressed to migrant sex work and trafficking for the purposes of prostitution. This work has been widely cited in the international literature. From a political theory perspective, Barbara has used her investigations of prostitution law and policy to explore aspects of feminist theory. This is particularly evident in her publications on power, consent, contract, and citizenship.
 

Selected Publications:

1. ‘Working in the Sex Industry in Australia: The Re-organization of Sex Work in Queensland in the Wake of Law Reform’  Labour and Industry 18(3): 73-92. 2008
2. ‘Rape, Prostitution and Consent’ The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 40 (2): 127-142, 2007.
3. ‘Pimps and Traffickers’ and ‘Men in Prostitution’ International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities, 1 vol., eds. M. Flood, J.K. Gardiner, B. Pease, and K. Pringle. London: Routledge, 2007.
4. ‘Feminism and Indigenous Rights in Australia in the 1990s’ in Melissa Haussman and Birgit Sauer, eds. Gendering the State in the Age of Globalization. Women's Movements and State Feminism in Post Industrial Democracies. Latham, Boulder & London: Rowman & Littlefield.  Pp.39-58. 2007.
5. Trafficking in Women. Feminism and New International Law, International Feminist Journal of Politics 5(1): 67-91. 2003.
6. The Politics of Sex. Prostitution and Pornography in Australia Since 1945. 1997. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
7. Carole Pateman: Participatory Democracy and Feminism, in April Carter and Geoffrey Stokes, eds. 1998. Liberal Democracy and its Critics. Cambridge: Polity. Pp.175-195.
8. Prostitution and Consent. Beyond the Liberal Dichotomy of Free or Forced, in Mark Cowling and Paul R. Reynolds, eds. 2004. Making Sense of Sexual Consent. Aldershot: Ashgate. Pp.127-139.
9. It’s All in the Contract. Rethinking Feminist Approaches to Contract, Law and Context 18(2): 112-128. (2001).
10. Sexual Citizenship, in Wayne Hudson and John Kane, eds. Rethinking Australian Citizenship Cambridge University Press. pp.150-157. 2000.
11. The Women’s Movement and Prostitution Politics in Australia, in Joyce Outshoorn, ed. The Politics of Prostitution: Women’s Movements, Democratic States and the Globalisation of Sex Commerce Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press. pp.21-40.
12. Rethinking Prostitution, in Barbara Caine and Rosemary Pringle, eds. Transitions. New Australian Feminisms, Allen and Unwin, 1995. pp.184-197.
13. Contemporary Australian Feminism: A Critical Review, in G. Stokes, ed. Australian Political Ideas, University of New South Wales Press, 1994, pp.152-167.
14. Mapping Contract, in Glyn Davis, Barbara Sullivan and Anna Yeatman, eds. 1997. The New Contractualism? Melbourne: Macmillan. pp.1-13.

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