My partner, Jackie West, who has died aged 74, was a prominent second-wave feminist, whose four decades of scholarship and activism made a notable contribution to local, national and international women’s rights.
Her research, which culminated in a PhD by publication, consisted of three main areas: gender and employment; sexuality and sexual health; and prostitution and gambling. It was the last that garnered the most attention from academic peers and NGOs, resulting in a memorable 2014 BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour debate on sex workers’ rights, with Sheila Jeffreys. That same year, Jackie contributed a chapter discussing the mobility of sex workers for a book, Globalization in Practice, edited by Nigel Thrift.
