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'I'd rather have a transorbital lobotomy / Than a transnational economy.' In his new book of poetry, Colin Smith's droll humour and meticulous control of language are metered out to explore the stakes of pain and the pain of folly. Language plays throughout the text, bringing a blithe tone to dark matters, and evoking fruitful tensions for the reader. Scattered topics of climate change, labour disputes, war, and massive inequities within cities are...
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La prostitución masculina es un mundo aparentemente invisible del que muy poco se ha escrito y cuya existencia no se conoce en profundidad. Algunos trabajadores del sexo comparten, por primera vez, sus emociones más íntimas, sus risas y sus llantos, las luces y sombras que forman parte del ser humano. El lector se topará con vidas silenciadas e invisibles envueltas en el estigma social.
Esta obra parte de los testimonios de los trabajadores del...
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Crossing Borders: Essays in Honour of Ian Angus is a collection of original and cutting- edge essays by thirteen outstanding and diverse Canadian and International scholars that engage with Professor Ian Angus' rich contributions to three distinct, albeit overlapping, fields: Canadian Studies, Phenomenology and Critical Theory, and Communication and Media Studies. These contributions are distinct, unique, and have had resonance across the intellectual...
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Fanny Murray (1729-1778) was a famous Georgian beauty and courtesan, desired throughout England and often to be found pressed to a gentleman's heart in the form of a printed disc secretly tucked into their pocket-watch. She rose from life in the 'London stews' to fame and fortune, through her career as a high-class courtesan. She was seduced and then abandoned, aged just 12, by Jack Spencer, grandson of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough (and related to...
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Lifelike, replica women and girls produced for men' s sexual use, sex dolls and robots represent the literal objectification of women. They are marketed as companions, the means for men to create their ‘ideal' woman, and as the "perfect girlfriend" that can be stored away after its use. Advocates claim the development of sex dolls and robots should be actively encouraged and will have many benefits—but for who?
“Sex Dolls, Robots and Woman...
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Serving as a history as well as a rare and valuable reference, Sex Work Activism in Canada brings together the narratives, histories, expertise, and teachings of sex work activists across the country. Through texts and testimonials from the grass-roots level it explores the past and present work of sex work activists and advocates in our own words.
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First published in 1934, "Sex Life in England" explores the history and development of sexual behaviour in England throughout history, looking at the concept of debauchery, famous people and cases, sexual perversion in the Arts, and much more. This volume will appeal to those with an interest in how ideas surrounding sex have changed over the years, and it would make for a fantastic addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: "Debauchers...
88) Zoe's Eyes
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"What do you mean you are quitting medical school in America to do something so ludicrous and downright insane? You don't know anything about that kind of life! You were brought up without needs or wants. You are leaving a prominent school like Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to do some hair brain idea like this."
"But mother, you don't understand. I am called by God to do this," Zoe attempting to reason with her mother to understand.
Anna...
89) Waterloo Bridge
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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On the eve of World War II, Roy, a British officer, revisits Waterloo Bridge where he and Myra met and fell in love during an air raid at the beginning of World War I. Heartbroken after Roy was reportedly killed in action, Myra turned to prostitution to make her way. The report, however, was false, and when Roy returns from a POW camp, Myra's shattered spirit may no longer hold any room for happiness.
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For decades, American hungers sustained Tijuana. In this scientific detective story, a public health expert reveals what happens when a border city's lifeline is brutally severed. Despite its reputation as a carnival of vice, Tijuana was, until recently, no more or less violent than neighboring San Diego, its sister city across the border wall. But then something changed. Over the past ten years, Mexico's third-largest city became one of the world's...
91) Puta no se nace
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Puta no se nace es un libro denuncia contra la explotación de mujeres y niñas por el lobby del sexo. En sus páginas, la reconocida periodista dice basta ya a la esclavitud del siglo XXI que desnuda de derechos y de dignidad a los millones de mujeres de todo el mundo que caen en esta lacra por culpa de los puteros que demandan sin consecuencias el uso de sus cuerpos. "La prostitución existe porque los varones compran el sexo de las mujeres pobres.
La...
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Extrait: "Il s'opère en France, depuis vingt ans, un travail de transformation sociale qui a modifié sensiblement les conditions dans lesquelles s'exerce l'action de l'autorité publique en matière de prostitution. Le sentiment religieux s'est affaibli, la tolérance pour la galanterie vénale et scandaleuse est entrée dans nos mœurs, les prostituées ont invoqué, ou plutt on a invoqué, pour elles, les immunités civiques, la tradition basée...
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Sex trafficking. For many Americans, it sounds like fiction. After all, who could believe that a preschool teacher was being transported against her will every weekend? That she was being sold for sex in multiple US states, out of the country, and even in her own home? That she was repeatedly threatened, drugged, and raped until she returned to her regular routine as a mother of three in an upper-class northern Utah community every Monday morning?
Julie...
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¿Le gusta el sexo? No, usted es un adicto al sexo duro o salvaje, si es así, ingrese a estas páginas, lo espera un recorrido amenazador y tempestuoso donde, entre risas y lágrimas, va a gemir sin lubricante y –como dice el autor de Noches de vodka. El diario de la puta inca– verá al diablo calato.
Los personajes en esta novela no tienen piedad ni decoro, esta palabra se ha suprimido del diccionario. Las acciones se ambientan en Lima, Río...
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En Hoja en blanco, Rosi Orozco retrata con honestidad y pasión la cruda realidad de la trata de personas. Entre estas páginas se encuentran sus causas, sus dimensiones, el profundo dolor de sus víctimas y el camino de vuelta a la recuperación. Por medio del relato de historias reales, diez valientes sobrevivientes cobran voz. Sus experiencias, en conjunto con información práctica -el fruto de una investigación profunda que atraviesa fronteras...
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Un libro para dejar los prejuicios a un lado y ver los distintos caminos de mujeres que ejercen la prostitución.
La prostitución es esa persona que te cruzas en un aeropuerto y es el timbre marcado en rojo en un portal de tu vecindario. A veces invisible y a veces a la vista de todos en las mismas aceras en las que te recoges tras una noche de fiesta. La prostitución se analiza desde el tabú, el desprecio, la censura o la compasión, pero pocas...
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Considered one of the world's most popular holiday destinations, the tropical island of Bali in Indonesia has long been the site for Western fantasies about paradise. Millions of tourists visit the Island of the Gods every year, from families treating the kids to a beach holiday to single men looking for cheap booze and sex. And for many young Westerners and Singaporeans, hardcore partying in Bali has become a rite of passage, but it is not without...
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The stories in Eight Pieces on Prostitution span the whole of Dorothy Johnston's writing life and includes her first published story, The Man Who Liked to Come with the News, which Frank Moorhouse chose for his 1983 anthology, The State of the Art.
Dorothy Johnston's first novel, Tunnel Vision, was set in a Melbourne massage parlour, and the theme of prostitution runs through several of her works, notably in The House at Number 10 and now in this...
99) Nana
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Nana Emile Zola - Das Buch war bei Erscheinen ein Skandal: Nana arbeitet sich von einem armseligen Dasein als Straßendirne empor in die vornehme Pariser Gesellschaft. Die "blonde Venus" ist so verführerisch, daß sie Macht über alle Repräsentanten der Regierung und der Presse gewinnt und Einsicht in die Lasterhaftigkeit und Verlogenheit der höheren Stände. Der außerordentlich spannende und lebendig geschriebene Roman ist Zolas schonungslose...
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Exposed is Kate Ouimette-Wedell's candid story of finding her way into and out of the commercial sex industry. After arriving in Hollywood to pursue her dream of breaking into the music business, Kate was soon trafficked by a man she believed was a friend. She escaped, but with no other means of survival, she went to work as an exotic dancer and sex worker.
Kate's story takes you through the terror, desperation, and exhaustion of life in the sex industry....
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