The Nation, October 23rd, 1989
In 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, made a plea for basic human rits and equality for women - a radical demand for the time. Now, 200 years later, prostitutes are calling for similar rights and equality. The need o speak out for the rights of sex workers became clear to Margo St. James, a former prostitute, in the early 1970s. She founded Coyote (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) in 1973 and went on to establish a network of prostitutes, social workers and politicians. Their reappropriation of the word "whore" and their demands for decriminalization of prostit...
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