Search:

Results 1 to 10 of 50 |

Children of the evening / by Able-Peterson, Trudee.(CARDINAL)160490;
Subjects: Child prostitution; Runaway children; Social work with prostitutes;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
unAPI

Domestic minor sex trafficking : beyond victims and villains / by Lutnick, Alexandra,author.(CARDINAL)846196;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-173) and index.The domestic sex trafficking of minors is a problem of growing concern yet little critical attention. This book analyzes the forces behind the sex-trafficking industry in the United States and provides a much-needed reference for practitioners. It adopts a holistic approach, pursuing a nuanced exploration of these young people's experiences, their treatment, and outside efforts to combat sex trafficking. <p>This book features interviews with service providers and experts, and incorporates recent research, thereby mapping the complex factors associated with young people's involvement in trading sex and the social connections that facilitate their behavior. It considers the experiences of both those who "choose" sex work and those who are forced into it by circumstances or third parties, and it discusses the networks of friends and close acquaintances who introduce newcomers to the trade. In addition, it takes a hard look at how local and federal responses to trafficking increase young people's vulnerability to trading sex. Urging policymakers and practitioners to move beyond the simple framework of "rescuing" victims and "punishing" villains, this book calls for policies and programs that focus on the failure of social and cultural systems and respond better to the young people caught in this web.
Subjects: Human trafficking; Prostitutes; Social work with prostitutes; Teenage prostitution;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The paper daughters of Chinatown [sound recording] by Moore, Heather B.,author.(CARDINAL)838952; Wu, Nancy,narrator.(CARDINAL)471726;
Read by Nancy Wu.In the late nineteenth century, San Francisco is a booming city with a dark side, one in which a powerful underground organization-- the criminal tong--buys and sells young Chinese women into prostitution and slavery. These "paper daughters," so called because fake documents gain them entry to America but leave them without legal identity, generally have no recourse. But the Occidental Mission Home for Girls is one bright spot of hope and help.
Subjects: Audio books on compact discs.; Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Cameron, Donaldina MacKenzie, 1869-1968; Chinese; Social work with prostitutes; Women social reformers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The white devil's daughters : the women who fought slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown / by Siler, Julia Flynn,1960-author.(CARDINAL)484511;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-406) and index.Queen's room -- "The cussedest place for women" -- Reveille cry -- "No ordinary person" -- Victorian compromise -- Inked thumbprints -- The celestial quarter -- "To have a little Chinaman" -- Baiting the hook -- Life as a mui tsai -- "A worse slavery than ever uncle tom knew of " -- Dynamite -- Devil's playground -- Chinatown in tears -- Year of the rat -- Instant fame -- Municipal storm -- "Forcing me into the life" -- "I may go to sleep tonight and then find myself in hell!" -- A deathbed promise -- Taking public stands -- Pink curtain -- Courage to fight evil -- The Chinese Mark Twain -- 'Ell of a place! -- The Lord is my shepherd -- "The stress of circumstances" -- Homecomings -- Municipal crib -- Paper son -- Dragon stories -- Tiny -- Missionaries of the home -- Matchmaking -- The "joy zone" -- Fruit tramps -- "Are you wearing a mask and taking precautions?" -- Quiet defiance -- Sargy -- Bessie -- Heavens for courage -- The thwack of bouncing balls -- Little general -- Shangri-la -- Broken blossoms -- Epilogue: "Blessed Tien.""A revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San Francisco during the first century of Chinese immigration (1848-1943) and the "safe house" on the edge of Chinatown that became a refuge for those seeking their freedom From 1874, a house on the edge of San Francisco's Chinatown served as a gateway to freedom for thousands of enslaved and vulnerable young Chinese women and girls. Known as the Occidental Mission Home, it survived earthquakes, fire, bubonic plague, and violence directed against its occupants and supporters--a courageous group of female abolitionists who fought the slave trade in Chinese women. With compassion and an investigative historian's sharp eyes, Siler tells the story of both the abolitionists, who challenged the corrosive, anti-Chinese prejudices of the time, and the young women who dared to flee their fate. She relates how the women who ran the house defied contemporary convention, even occasionally broke the law, by physically rescuing children from the brothels where they worked, or snatching them off the ships smuggling them in, and helped bring the exploiters to justice. She has also uncovered the stories of many of the girls and young women who came to the Mission and the lives they later led,sometimes becoming part of the home's staff themselves. A remarkable story of an overlooked part of our history, told with sympathy and vigor"--
Subjects: Occidental Mission Home; Human trafficking; Social work with prostitutes; Chinese; Women abolitionists;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 13
unAPI

The paper daughters of Chinatown / by Moore, Heather B.,author.(CARDINAL)838952;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-372)."A fictionalized account of the early years of Donaldina Cameron's work with the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in San Francisco, California, which worked to rescue Chinese girls and women from slavery conditions in the late 1800s through the early 1900s."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Novels.; Cameron, Donaldina, 1869-1968; Women social reformers; Social work with prostitutes; Human trafficking victims; Chinese;
Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 18
unAPI

An honest woman : a memoir of love and sex work / by Shane, Charlotte(Author),author.(CARDINAL)896113;
In her early twenties, Charlotte Shane quit her women's studies graduate program to devote herself to sex work because it was a way to devote herself to men. Her lifelong curiosity about male lust, love, selfishness, and social capital dovetailed with her own insatiable desire for intimacy to sustain a long career in escorting, with unexpectedly poignant results. Shane uses her personal and professional history to examine how men and women struggle in their attempts at romantic and sexual bonding, no matter how true their intentions. As she takes stock of her relationships, with clients, with her father, with friends, with married men, and later, with her own husband, she tells a candid and haunting tale of love, marriage, and (in)fidelity, as seen through the eyes of the perpetual "other woman." Braiding the personal and the universal, Shane's memoir is a merciless and moving love letter to straight men and an indictment of habitual dishonesty, a condemnation of every social constraint acting on heterosexual unions, and a hopeful affirmation of the possibility for true connection between men and women.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Shane, Charlotte (Author); Prostitutes; Sex workers; Prostitution; Heterosexual women; Man-woman relationships; Misogyny; Female prostitution.; Prostitution.; Heterosexual women.; Misogyny.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
unAPI

Paris by night / by Brassaï,1899-1984.(CARDINAL)130926; Morand, Paul,1888-1976.(CARDINAL)122140;
Brassaï's first book, published in the mid-1930s, is a collection of his evocative and compelling photographs of the nightlife of Paris, with its rich cast of characters (prostitutes, bohemian artists, strolling lovers, café patrons) and its eerily romantic atmosphere.
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Brassaï, 1899-1984.; Night photography;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Karolina and the torn curtain / by Szymiczkowa, Maryla,author.(CARDINAL)826078; Lloyd-Jones, Antonia,translator.(CARDINAL)668386;
"Cracow, 1895. Zofia and her maid Franciszka have their hands full organizing Easter festivities, especially with the household short one servant - where has the capable Karolina disappeared to? Shortly after, Zofia hears that the body of a young woman, violated and stabbed, has washed up on a bank of the River Vistula. Domestic work can wait - Zofia must go investigate. Shockingly, the body turns out to be none other than Karolina. Working with the police, Zofia's investigations take her deep into the city's underbelly - a far cry from the socialite's Cracow she's familiar with. Desperate to unearth what happened to Karolina, though, she pushes her prejudice aside, immersing herself among prostitutes, gangsters, and duplicitous politicians to unravel a twisted tale of love and deceit."--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Corruption; Human trafficking; Murder; Women private investigators;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
unAPI

Cécé / by Prophète, Emmelie,1971-author.; Rooney, Aidan,1965-translator.;
"Čč La Flamme, as she's known by her loyal Facebook friends, captures photographs of still bodies. Figures scorched and bruised, left to the rubble of the Ciť of Divine Power. When she posts an image of a corpse, Čč's followers skyrocket. "Nothing got more attention than a good corpse that was nice and warm or already rotting." Just beside visions of rot and neglect, she posts pictures of her toes, gullies crisscrossing the ciť, and her own lips painted blue. With every image, Čč seeks control and wants to create a frank, intimate record of the terror in her ciť. Čč's world begins and ends with the ciť - a slum peopled by gangs, yelping kids, grandmothers, junkies, and preachers. The very gate that encloses the ciť was constructed by militant gang members. First boss Freddy, then Jo͡l, then Jules Čsar rule the gang that holds the ciť in a chokehold. Sharp, sincere, and desperate, Čč cleaves life for herself out of social media, sex work, and attempts at friendship with other women. When an American journalist offers to buy the rights to Čč's photographs, she demands double the cash. When an abusive former client dies, she wears hot pink to his funeral. "--
Subjects: Social problem fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Young women; Women photographers; Social media; Prostitutes; Slums; Dead; Prostitution; Gangs; Violence;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
unAPI

Born into brothels / by Kauffman, Ross,directorcinematographer.(DLC)no2006010941; Briski, Zana,actordirectorcinematographer.(DLC)no2005053655; Dreyfous, Geralyn White,producer.(DLC)no2008099265; Boll, Pamela Tanner,producer.(DLC)no2008099264; Baker, Nancy.(DLC)n 85273948; McDowell, John,musical director.(DLC)no2009105650; HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films.(DLC)no2004120001; Red Light Films (Firm)(DLC)no2005119724; Thinkfilm (Firm)(DLC)no2005025530;
Executive producer, Geralyn White Dreyfous ; co-executive producer, Pamela Tanner Boll ; cinematography, Ross Kauffman, Zana Briski ; editors, Nancy Baker and Ross Kauffman ; music by, John McDowell.Featuring Zana Briski.A tribute to the resiliency of childhood and the restorative power of art, "Born into brothels" is a portrait of several unforgettable children who live in Calcutta's red light district, where their mothers work as prostitutes. Spurred by the kids' fascination with her camera, Zana Briski, a New York-based photographer living in the brothels and documenting life there, decided to teach them photography. As they begin to look at and record their own world through new eyes, the kids, who society refuses to recognize, awaken for the first time to their own talents and sense of worth. Filmmakers Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski capture the way in which beauty can be found in even the seemingly bleakest and most hopeless of places, and how art and education can empower children to transform their lives.MPAA rating: R; for some sequences of strong language.DVD; Region 1; Dolby digitial stereo 2.0, Dolby digital surround 5.1.
Subjects: Films for the hearing impaired.; Documentary films.; Briski, Zana.; Children of prostitutes; Child photographers; Brothels; Prostitution;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Results 1 to 10 of 50 |