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1	Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy more books like this by Barbara Ehrenreich (Editor), Arlie Hochschild (Editor) add to wishlist In a remarkable pairing, two renowned social critics offer a groundbreaking anthology that examines the unexplored consequences of globalization on the lives of women worldwide. see all copies from $2.50! new only from $4.54! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Let That Be the Reason more books like this by Vickie M Stringer add to wishlist "Essence"-bestselling author Stringer began her wildly successful career in 2002 with the publication of "Let That Be the Reason," a cautionary tale and a story of redemption, which is being re-released to the delight of her many fans. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Secret Diary of a Call Girl more books like this by Belle De Jour add to wishlist Just in time for the Showtime cable series based on the book, "Secret Diary of a Call Girl" follows a young woman--attractive, smart, educated, and enterprising--and her life as one of London's premier working girls. see all copies from $4.91! new only from $7.42!
4	Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy more books like this by K Bales add to wishlist Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales' disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of multinational corporations. His investigation of conditions in Mauritania ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $21.10! \| signed copies \| SVS
5	The Blue Notebook more books like this by James Levine add to wishlist Dear Reader: Every now and then, we come across a novel that moves us like no other, that seems like a miracle of the imagination, and that haunts us long after the book is closed. James Levine's The Blue Notebook is that kind of book. It is the story of Batuk, an Indian girl who is taken to Mumbai from the countryside and sold into prostitution ... see all copies from $5.95! new only from $5.95! \| SVS
6	Enslaved: True Stories of Modern Day Slavery more books like this by Jesse Sage (Editor), Liora Kasten (Editor), Gloria Steinem (Foreword by) add to wishlist Twenty-seven million people are estimated to be held in slavery around the world today. This collection of first-hand accounts will raise awareness and show how slavery is thriving in the twenty first century. From poverty-stricken countries to affluent American suburbs, slaves toil as sweatshop workers, sex slaves, migrant workers, domestic ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Ninetenth-Century New York more books like this by Patricia Cline Cohen add to wishlist With formidable skill, historian Patricia Cline Cohen has reconstructed the events and characters central to one of the great public melodramas of the 19th century--the murder of a beautiful prostitute and the trial of her lover. 16 illustrations. 2 maps. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.18! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent more books like this by David Henry Sterry add to wishlist David Sterry was a wide-eyed son of 1970's suburbia, but he was lured into a dark world--servicing the lonely women of Hollywood by night. "Chicken"--the word is slang for a young male prostitute--revisits this year of living dangerously in a narrative of dazzling inventiveness and searing candor. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $58.96! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920 more books like this by Timothy J Gilfoyle add to wishlist In the 19th century, New York saw the development of a sex industry at the heart of a consumer world of entertainment, goods, newspapers and advertising. In this book, Gilfoyle blends first-hand experience with demographic research to present a study of the politics and economics of sex. see all copies from $7.00! new only from $12.52! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Imagine This more books like this by Vickie Stringer add to wishlist In the follow-up to her bestselling debut "Let That Be The Reason," Stringer once again takes readers into the dark underbelly of the street scene and presents the difficult--and dangerous--choices people must make to preserve their families . . . and their lives. see all copies from $2.30! new only from $3.49! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine more books like this by Somaly Mam, Ruth Marshall add to wishlist After being sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather at the age of 12, Mam suffered the brutality and horrors of human trafficking until she managed to escape. Here she recounts her early life and tells the story of her harrowing fight against the corrupt forces that steal the lives of these girls. see all copies from $4.50! new only from $4.50! \| SVS
12 view cover	Pandering more books like this by Heidi Fleiss add to wishlist In a stunningly candid and courageous memoir, the notorious Hollywood Madam tells her own story for the first time. Featuring original text, wiretap transcripts, court documents, news clippings, diary excerpts, interviews with hookers, and fantastic original artwork, Heidi tells her story with a fierce regard for the truth. Color illustrations ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Rescue more books like this by William W Johnstone add to wishlist In California, Frank Morgan nearly fond a home. But now he's pulled up stakes and hit the road again, aiming to reach the high desert of Arizona. For Frank, the plan changes when he steps into a saloon in a dusty boom town called Los Angeles. That's where he learns that his nemesis, Val Dooley, has found anew business: the selling of young women ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.20! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	What's Love Got to Do with It?: Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic more books like this by Denise Brennan, Denise Brennan, Walter D Mignolo (Editor) add to wishlist In locations around the world, sex tourism is a booming business. "What's Love Got to Do with It?" is an in-depth examination of the motivations of workers, clients, and others connected to the sex tourism business in Sosua, a town located on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic. Denise Brennan considers why Dominican and Haitian women ... see all copies from $19.50! new only from $23.95! \| SVS
15 view cover	Bodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced Into Prostitution in the Americas more books like this by Isabel Vincent add to wishlist Isabel Vincent's groundbreaking exploration brings to light a dark chapter in our recent history: the white slave trade and the international Jewish mobsters behind it. From the end of the 1860s until the beginning of the Second World War, thousands of young, impoverished Jewish women, most of them from the hard-scrabble shtetls of Eastern Europe ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade more books like this by Victor Malarek add to wishlist A blistering, eye-opening look at the horrific global phenomenon of sexual trafficking... This is 21st century slavery. see all copies from $16.96! new only from $21.00!
17 view cover	Been There, Done That more books like this by Carol Snow add to wishlist A laugh-out-loud, warmhearted debut about a woman reliving her youth (and not just the good parts). Plenty of thirtysomething women would be thrilled to look like a teenager. But journalist Kathy Hopkins wishes she could be taken a little more seriously-or, at the very least, order a glass of wine without producing ID. Now her youthful ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| SVS
18 view cover	Working Girls more books like this by Treasure Hernandez add to wishlist The second book in this gritty, evocative urban saga is set in Flint, Michigan, where the good die young and the innocent don't stay that way for long. see all copies from $6.32! new only from $6.57! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Pandora's Box more books like this by Allison Hobbs add to wishlist Ambition, desperation, and redemption abound in this compelling debut novel about a woman forced to sink to the darkest depths of morality...and her quest to fight her way back. Victoria Carlton invested everything into her dream of becoming a singer--her hopes, her time, her life savings--only to fall victim to the harsh realities of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.99! \| SVS
20 view cover	Orientalia: Sex in Asia more books like this by Reagan Louie (Photographer), Tracy Quan, Blind Spot Books add to wishlist For six years, Asian-American photographer Reagan Louie journeyed through Asia's sexual underworld, visiting nearly a dozen countries including Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Vietnam, Tibet, Thailand, and Japan, among others, photographing the day-to-day lives of women who, either by choice or by necessity, exchange their bodies for ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $50.00! \| first editions
21 view cover	A house is not a home more books like this by Polly Adler add to wishlist Polly Adler's "house" - the brothel that gave this best-selling 1953 autobiography its title - was a major site of New York City underworld activity from the 1920s through the 1940s. Adler's notorious Lexington Avenue house of prostitution functioned as a sort of social club for New York's gangsters and a variety of other celebrities, including ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $28.91! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery more books like this by Siddharth Kara add to wishlist Every year, millions of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, made to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. Generating huge profits for their exploiters, sex slaves form the backbone of one of the world's most profitable illicit enterprises, for unlike narcotics, which must ... see all copies from $18.70! new only from $18.70! \| SVS
23 view cover	The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918 more books like this by Ruth C Rosen add to wishlist "Rosen has broken entirely new ground in what will surely remain the definitive study of urban prostitution in America for many years to come."--'TLS' see all copies from $4.73! new only from $11.72! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women more books like this by Alexa Albert add to wishlist In this study of legalized prostitution, a medical student focuses on a brothel in Nevada between 1993 and 1999. By drawing on interviews with the prostitutes, their clients, and the establishment's owners, she reveals how all participants relate like one big happy--and sometimes dysfunctional--family. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.89! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Tricks more books like this by Ellen Hopkins add to wishlist This gripping new work of verse by a "New York Times"-bestselling author tells five moving accounts that remain separate at first, then interweave to tell a larger, powerful story--a tale about making choices, taking leaps of faith, falling down, and growing up. see all copies from $11.35! new only from $11.35! \| first editions \| SVS

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