Prostitution, trafficking and traumatic stress / Melissa Farley, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Farley, Melissa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-traumatic stress disorder.

Prostitution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Binghamton, NY : Haworth Maltreatment & Trauma Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, stri

Contents:

Front Cover; Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface: Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress: Melissa Farley; Introduction: Hidden in Plain Sight:Clinical Observations on Prostitution: Judith Lewis Herman; Understanding Prostitution and Trafficking Organized Interpersonal Violence; Sister Oppressions: A Comparison of Wife Battering and Prostitution: Christine Stark, Carol Hodgson

Prostitution and Trafficking in Nine Countries:An Update on Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Melissa Farley Ann Cotton, Jacqueline Lynne Sybille Zumbeck, Frida Spiwak Maria E. Reyes, Dinorah Alvarez Ufuk SezginProstitution and Trauma in U.S. Rape Law: Michelle J. Anderson; Gay Male Pornography's "Actors":When "Fantasy" Isn't: Christopher N. Kendall, Rus Ervin Funk; Prostitution Online: Donna M. Hughes; From Duty to Despair:Brothel Prostitution in Cambodia: Wendy Freed

Prostitution and Trafficking of Women and Children from Mexico to the United States: Marisa B. Ugarte, Laura Zarate, Melissa FarleyProstitution and Trafficking in Women:An Intimate Relationship: Dorchen A. Leidholdt; Healing From Prostitution and Trafficking; Emotional Experiences of Performing Prostitution: Lisa A. Kramer; Dissociation Among Women in Prostitution: Colin A. Ross, Melissa Farley, Harvey L. Schwartz; Providing Services to African American ProstitutedWomen: Vednita Carter

The Importance of Supportive Relationships Among Women Leaving Prostitution: Ulla-Carin Hedin, Sven Axel MånssonPEERS: The Prostitutes' Empowerment, Education and Resource Society: Jannit Rabinovitch; Been There Done That:SAGE, a Peer Leadership Model Among Prostitution Survivors: Norma Hotaling, Autumn Burris, B. Julie Johnson, Yoshi M. Bird, Kirsten A. Melbye; Living in Longing:Prostitution, Trauma Recovery, and Public Assistance: Margaret A. Baldwin; Ten Reasons for Not Legalizing Prostitution and a Legal Response to the Demand for Prostitution: Janice G. Raymond; Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

"Simultaneously published as Journal of trauma practice, volume 2, numbers 3/4 2003."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-76489-5

0-429-23707-3

1-283-60805-7

9786613920508

1-136-76490-9

0-203-82246-3

9780429237072

OCLC:

811506441