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Histoire de Michèle : La vie continue
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ISBN: 2213003726 Year: 1976 Publisher: [lieu de publication inconnu] Fayard


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Santa : a novel of Mexico City
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ISBN: 1469604337 080789950X 9780807899502 9781469604336 9780807871072 0807871079 9780807833698 080783369X Year: 2010 Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,

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Santa: A Novel of Mexico City


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Lost bodies : prostitution and masculinity in Chinese fiction
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ISBN: 128295122X 9786612951220 9047444086 9789047444084 9781282951228 9789004179783 900417978X Year: 2010 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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This important contribution to the study of early modern Chinese fiction and representation of gender relations focuses on literary representations of the prostitute produced in the Ming and Qing periods. Following her heavily symbolic body, the present work maps this fictional heroine's journey from innocence to sex-work and beyond. This crucial angle allows the author to paint a picture of gender identity, sexuality, and desire that is at once unitary and multi-layered, and that comes to illuminate some of the major themes in the construction of Chinese modernity.


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Leaving prostitution
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ISBN: 081477072X 9780814770726 0814770371 9780814770375 9780814785881 9780814770375 0814785883 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York New York University Press

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While street prostitutes comprise only a small minority of sex workers, they have the highest rates of physicaland sexual abuse, arrest and incarceration, drug addiction, and stigmatization, which stem from both their public visibility and their dangerous work settings. Exiting the trade can be a daunting task for street prostitutes; despite this, many do try at some point to leave sex work behind. Focusing on four differentorganizations based in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and Hartford that help prostitutes get off the streets, Sharon S. Oselin’s Leaving Prostitution explores the difficulties, rewards, and public responses tofemale street prostitutes’ transition out of sex work.Through in-depth interviews and field research with street-level sex workers, Oselin illuminates their pathways into the trade and their experiences while in it, and the host of organizational, social, and individual factors that influence whether they are able to stop working as prostitutes altogether. She also speaks to staff atorganizations that aid street prostitutes, and assesses the techniques they use to help these women develop self-esteem, healthy relationships with family and community, and workplace skills. Oselin paints a full picture of the difficulties these women face in moving away from sex work and the approaches that do and do not work to help them transform their lives. Further, she offers recommendations to help improve the quality of life for these women. A powerful ethnographic account, Leaving Prostitution provides an essential understanding of getting out and staying out of sex work.

Listening to Olivia: Violence, Poverty, and Prostitution.
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ISBN: 1555538533 9781555538538 9781555535971 Year: 2015 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified]

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The harrowing story of a woman's descent into prostitution and addiction, the remarkable tale of her recovery, and an exposé of the global trafficking industry.


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To live freely in this world
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ISBN: 9781479844647 1479844640 9781479817566 1479817562 9781479849062 1479849065 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York London

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Sex worker activists throughout Africa are demanding an end to the criminalization of sex work and the recognition of their human rights to safe working conditions, health and justice services, and lives free from violence and discrimination. To Live Freely in This World is the first book to tell the story of the brave activists at the beating heart of the sex workers’ rights movement in Africa—the newest and most vibrant face of the global sex workers’ rights struggle. African sex worker activists are proving that communities facing human rights abuses are not bereft of agency. They’re challenging politicians, religious fundamentalists, and anti-prostitution advocates; confronting the multiple stigmas that affect the diverse members of their communities; engaging in intersectional movement building with similarly marginalized groups; and participating in the larger global sex workers’ rights struggle in order to determine their social and political fate.By locating this counter-narrative in Africa, To Live Freely in This World challenges disempowering and one-dimensional depictions of “degraded Third World prostitutes” and helps fill what has been a gaping hole in feminist scholarship regarding sex work in the African context. Based on original fieldwork in seven African countries, including Botswana, Kenya, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda, Chi Adanna Mgbako draws on extensive interviews with over 160 African female and male (cisgender and transgender) sex worker activists, and weaves their voices and experiences into a fascinating, richly-detailed, and powerful examination of the history and continuing activism of this young movement.


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Dangerous Love : Sex Work, Drug Use, and the Pursuit of Intimacy in Tijuana, Mexico
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ISBN: 0520384407 0520384393 Year: 2022 Publisher: University of California Press

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The relationships between female sex workers and their noncommercial male partners are often assumed to be coercive and anchored in risk, dismissed as “pimp-prostitute” arrangements by researchers and the general public alike. Yet, these stereotypes unjustly erase the complexity of lives we imagine to be consumed by social suffering. Dangerous Love centers a framework of love to rethink sex workers’ intimate relationships as commitments to collective solidarity and survival in contexts of oppression. Combining epidemiological research and ethnographic fieldwork in Tijuana, Mexico, Jennifer Leigh Syvertsen examines how individuals try to find love and meaning in lives marked by structural violence, social marginalization, drug addiction, and HIV/AIDS. Linking the political economy of inequalities along the border with emotional lived experience, this book explores how intimate relationships become dangerous safe havens that fundamentally shape both partners’ well-being. Through these stories, we are urged to reimagine the socially transformative power of love to carve new pathways to health equity.


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Reframing prostitution : from discourse to description, from moralisation to normalisation ?
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ISBN: 9789046606735 9046606732 Year: 2014 Publisher: Antwerpen Apeldoorn Portland Maklu


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Lost bodies : prostitution and masculinity in Chines fiction
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ISBN: 9789004179783 Year: 2010 Volume: 3 Publisher: Leiden [etc.] Brill


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Greek prostitutes in the ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE
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ISBN: 9780299235642 0299235645 9780299235635 0299235637 1283077531 9786613077530 9781283077538 6613077534 Year: 2011 Publisher: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press,

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Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE challenges the often-romanticized view of the prostitute as an urbane and liberated courtesan by examining the social and economic realities of the sex industry in Greco-Roman culture. Departing from the conventional focus on elite society, these essays consider the Greek prostitute as displaced foreigner, slave, and member of an urban underclass. The contributors draw on a wide range of material and textual evidence to discuss portrayals of prostitutes on painted vases and in the literary tradition, their roles at symposia (Greek drinking parties), and their place in the everyday life of the polis. Reassessing many assumptions about the people who provided and purchased sexual services, this volume yields a new look at gender, sexuality, urbanism, and economy in the ancient Mediterranean world.

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