Education

Dodillet earned a master's degree in cultural education from the University of Hildesheim

University of Hildesheim

The University of Hildesheim was founded in 1978. Its main faculties are educational and social sciences, cultural sciences and aesthetic communications, and information and communication sciences. With around 5000 students currently enrolled, this university is relatively small.Unlike very few...

 in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

  (2001) and a PhD in the history of ideas from the University of Gothenburg in 2009.

Her doctoral thesis Är sex arbete? (Is sex work?)

compared the Swedish and German policy process with respect to prostitution. In her dissertation she argued for rights for sex workers, including pension rights. Since a defence of sex workers' rights placed her in a minority in Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

, her thesis was considered very controversial.

Books

• Är sex arbete?: svensk och tysk prostitutionspolitik sedan 1970-talet. Vertigo akademika Stockholm 2009. ISBN 978-91-85000-59-3

Articles

• http://www.petraostergren.com/upl/files/54259.pdfThe Swedish Sex Purchase Act: Claimed Success and Documented Effects. S Dodillet, P Östergren
  Petra Östergren
  Anna Cecilia Petra Östergren is a Swedish feminist writer, debater, social commentator and an instructor in self defense. She has an MA in Social Anthropology , and is a doctoral student at Lund University...
  
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