Prostitution narratives : stories of survival in the sex trade /

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Imprint:	North Melbourne, Victoria : Spinifex Press, 2016. ©2016
Description:	1 online resource (238 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Prostitutes -- Crimes against. Prostitutes -- Social conditions. Prostitution -- Social aspects. Prostitutes -- Crimes against. Prostitutes -- Social conditions. Prostitution -- Social aspects.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11405647

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Other authors / contributors:	Norma, Caroline, editor. Tankard Reist, Melinda, editor.
ISBN:	9781742199818 174219981X 9781742199832 1742199836 9781742199863 1742199860 9781742199825
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"For too long the global sex industry and its vested interests have dominated the prostitution debate repeating the same old line that 'sex work' is just like any job. In large sections of the media, academia, public policy, government and the law, the sex industry has had its way. Little is said of the damage, violation, suffering, and torment of prostitution on the bodies and minds of mostly women and children, nor of the deaths, suicides and murders that are routine in the sex industry. Prostitution Narratives: Stories of Survival in the Sex Trade refutes the lies and debunks the myths spread by the industry through the lived experiences of women who have survived prostitution. These disturbing stories give voice to formerly prostituted women who explain why they entered the sex trade. They bravely and courageously recount their intimate experiences of harm and humiliation at the hands of sex buyers, pimps and traffickers and reveal their escape and emergence as survivors. Edited by Caroline Norma and Melinda Tankard Reist, Prostitution Narratives documents the reality of prostitution revealing the cost to the lives of women and girls. Prostitution Narratives: Stories of Survival in the Sex Trade will strengthen and support the global campaign to abolish prostitution, provide solidarity and solace to those who bear its scars, and hopefully help women and girls exit this dehumanising industry"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:	Print version: Prostitution narratives. North Melbourne, Victoria : Spinifex Press, 2016 9781742199863

Table of Contents:

Introduction : prostitution survivors speak out / Caroline Norma and Melinda Tankard Reist
Prologue : the dangerous denialism of "sex work" ideology / Rachel Moran
Testimonies
Save by horses
The fake you
Prostitution sounded like a life of adventure
Groomed into prostitution
Didn't come to hear bitches recite poetry
Internalising [sic] the violence
We are all expendable
Porn companies don't care if we live or die / Jan E. Villarubia
A piece of me / Kendra Chase
Goodbye mademoiselle
No life for a human being / Autumn Burris
My pain on display
When you become pornography / Christine Stark
And they call this "sex work"? / Simone Watson
Incest was the boot camp for my prostitution / Jacqueline Lynne
Warning : prostitution destroys your soul / Genevieve Gilbert
I was worth more
Keep the faith / Rebecca Mott
My canvas, my pain, my healing / Suzzan Blac
Commentaries
I was a pimp / Jacqueline Gwynne
The men who buy women for sex / Caitlin Roper
Ten myths about prostitution, trafficking and the Nordic model / Meagan Tyler.

Prostitution narratives : stories of survival in the sex trade /

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