Exposing the 'Pretty Woman' Myth

A Qualitative Investigation of Street-Level Prostituted Women

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

AvRochelle L. Dalla

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Exposing the "Pretty Woman" Myth presents the lived experiences of women who prostitute themselves on the streets. It is based on research conducted with prostituted women over a six-year period. Author Rochelle Dalla presents case-history analyses of the women participants and opens a window into the world of street-level prostitution. This informative and engrossing book allows for the women's voices to be heard and their stories to be told. Importantly, this is not a book about sex and prostitution, per se. This is a book about prostitutedwomen. It is about the lives and relationships and pivotal occurrences in the developmental trajectories of vulnerable female populations. The women's involvement in street-level sex-work is important, but it is only one segment in the entire spectrum of their lived experiences. Within these pages, Dalla presents the entire spectrum giving the women's lives context and texture, including and beyond prostitution.

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Utgivningsdatum2006-07-10
Mått161 x 239 x 25 mm
Vikt526 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor264
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739110805

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Part 1 The Journey BeginsChapter 2 Images of IndividualityChapter 3 Theoretical OverviewChapter 4 Research MethodologyPart 5 The Larger Perspective: Patterns of CommonalityChapter 6 Families of Origin and ProcreationChapter 7 Life in the "Game"Chapter 8 Violence and AbuseChapter 9 Exiting with OptimismPart 10 Follow-up and ApplicationChapter 11 Three Years Later: A Longitudinal InvestigationChapter 12 Intervention Strategies and Policy Implications

Exposing the Pretty Woman Myth is a book which does just that. Through in-depth explorations of the lives of 43 women in prostitution, Dalla helps us to see them as real people, rather than as the embodiments of johns' fantasies. Dalla is a compassionate, humanitarian researcher who cares deeply about her interviewees. In this book, she asks lots of questions about the women's lives, and as a result we learn some new things about prostitution. She details the wrenching and often life-threatening abandonment they experienced as children, their chaotic family environments, and the extreme violence suffered at the hands of partners and pimps. Dalla describes the intergenerational nature of prostitution, a topic rarely if ever addressed by other researchers. Perhaps most important, Dalla re-interviewed a number of the women after 3 years and discusses some of the factors that contributed either to their staying out of prostitution or to their re-entry into it. She eloquently describes the crucial role of social relationships in their remaining out of prostitution and makes some wise policy recommendations.