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Listopia > Monique's votes on the list Sex Worker Book List - International (21 Books)
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Mothers, Mothering and Sex Work
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Gather Together in My Name
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"Gather Together in My Name, the second volume in Maya Angelou’s series of autobiographies, takes place at the end of World War II when teenage Angelou, called Rita, has given birth to her son. She struggles for the next few years with trying to find a job, a man, and a place where she and her son belong in the world. Chapter 15 details her brief stint serving as a pimp for two lesbian prostitutes, a role she proposed to them in an attempt to thwart their perceived advances, and Chapter 27 chronicles her short time serving as a “cherry,” a young, inexperienced “virgin” in a whore house. "
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Dear Life
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"Alice Munro’s short story “Voices" in her book Dear Life offers an autobiographical perspective in the voice of a girl child of a community’s response, and specifically a mother’s felt and expressed obligation to act, when a known sex worker arrives at a community event she is attending with the narrator-daughter. It provides critical insight into mid-century Canadian values about prostitutes being a contaminant stigmatized in society, social con
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demnation, and the ongoing existence of sex workers as members of communities." See Review |
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Whores and Other Feminists
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Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk
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Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work
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And The Point of All this Agony is...?
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Are They Bad Girls or Brilliant?: The Truths Behind the Fight for Independent Prostitutes' Rights
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A Woman Whose Calling is Men: The Memoirs of a Priestess -- Identified Prostitute
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A Woman Whose Calling is Men: Her Affairs of the Heart - Book Three
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A Woman Whose Calling is Men: Her Visions and Advocacies
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Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
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Global Sex Workers (Oxford Historical Monographs)
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Women of the Light: The New Sacred Prostitute
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Tales of a Sacred Prostitute: Revelations of How Sexual Energy Heals
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Magdalen Rising: The Beginning (Maeve Chronicles, #1)
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The Passion of Mary Magdalen (Maeve Chronicles, #2)
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Rent: The untold story of male prostitution in Dublin
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Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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Ode to Minoa
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