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History: Globe & Mail: Dr. Jacqueline Murray on the Recent Sex-Trade Worker Ruling

Posted on Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

An opinion piece by history professor Jacqueline Murray about Monday’s Ontario Court of Appeal decision regarding sex-trade workers appears today in the Globe and Mail. Murray, the director of the First-Year Seminars program, is a medieval historian whose research focuses on sex, sexuality and gender. Her op-ed article discusses examines the history of the sex-trade industry and the legalization of brothels. The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that many sections of Canada’s criminal code violated the rights of sex-trade workers. The ruling didn’t strike down the law that makes communicating for the intent of prostitution illegal. Read the story at the Globe & Mail