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The Abolitionist Movement

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Andrea Dworkin once mused, ‘Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps’. To many, prostituted women do not matter at all.

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Bindel, J. (2019). The Abolitionist Movement. In: The Pimping of Prostitution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95947-1_1

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