Review:
"A major contribution to our understanding of the commercial sex industry in the United States. Jody Raphael weaves Olivia's story with research findings to provide a compelling, brutally honest, and thoroughly grounded portrait of the entrapment of impoverished women in prostitution, and the violence that is integral to its maintenance. This is a must read." -- Jody Miller, University of Missouri-Saint Louis "Raphael's accounts of women in lower levels and exploited forms of prostitution complements what researchers conducting street-level prostitution research have been saying for more than a decade. To her credit, Raphael is able to put a human face on what has been a hidden tragedy in the country and abroad. I applaud her efforts and hope that many more books and articles will be written on this subject. In order to intimately understand the tragedy of prostituted women, this book is well worth reading for anyone."--National Women's Studies Association Journal "What makes all of Raphael's books special is that she focuses each one on one individual, but includes the research findings about the topics covered, letting readers know how typical her cases are, and what social scientists know about the entire subject discussed." --Sexual Assault Report "The most inspiring part of the book is Raphael's description of the long process of Olivia getting out ad healing from the 19 years of abuse she endured . . . Raphael provides a modest agenda to what society should do to prevent harm to women from the sex trade, e.g. coordinated community response." --Sexual Assault Report
About the Author:
Jody Raphael is Senior Research Fellow at the DePaul University College of Law's Schiller, DuCanto and Fleck Family Law Center and author of Saving Bernice: Battered Women, Welfare, and Poverty, the first book in a trilogy on women, violence, and poverty to be published by Northeastern University Press. She lives in Oak Park, Illinois. Claire Renzetti, editor of the Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law, is Professor of Sociology at St. Joseph's University. She divides her time between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Dayton, Ohio.
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