My life is my ceremony: indigenous women of the sex trade share stories about their families and their resiliency.

The current discourse on women who work in the sex trade is often viewed through a lens based on “victim and abuse” (Gorkoff and Runner, 2003, p. 15) positioning them as being helpless, needing to be rescued and reformed in hopes they will become upstanding citizens. Constructing a resilient iden...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pooyak, Sherri
Other Authors: Brown, Leslie Allison
Language:English
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Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3116