Author: Melissa Farley
ISBN: 9780789023797
Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress offers the reader an analysis of prostitution and trafficking as organized interpersonal violence. Even in academia, law, and public health, prostitution is often misunderstood as “sex work.†The book's 32 contributors offer clinical examples, analysis, and original research that counteract common myths about the harmlessness of prostitution. Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress extensively documents the violence that runs like a constant thread throughout all types of prostitution, including escort, brothel, trafficking, strip club, pornography, and street prostitution. Prostitutes are always subjected to verbal sexual harassment and often have a lengthy history of trauma, including childhood sexual abuse and emotional neglect, racism, economic discrimination, rape, and other physical and sexual violence. International in scope, the book contains cutting-edge contributions from clinical experts in traumatic stress, from
Publisher: Psychology Press
Publish Date: 2003
Subjects: Family & Relationships / Abuse / General, Psychology / Clinical Psychology, Psychology / Neuropsychology, Psychology / Industrial & Organizational Psychology
This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Sex Work)