Tagged with sex work
The Accidental Mistress
reviewdate:
Aug 3 2019
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9781496715784
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The Boss
reviewdate:
Mar 12 2019
isn:
9781496704757
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Uptown Thief
reviewdate:
Mar 9 2019
isn:
9781496704719
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Out of the Easy
reviewdate:
Aug 25 2017
isn:
9781101607800
Last of the Live Nude Girls: a Memoir, the
If a zine girl is going to write a memoir, I'm going to read it. Sheila does a better job than most at making the leap to the big spine. I don't have any complaints as far as that goes, like I often do. The editing and production are good. The only thing that bothered me at all is that I'm pretty sure I recognize one of the background characters, whose identity is concealed only by a very minor name change.
reviewdate:
Nov 13 2012
isn:
978-1-59376-400-5
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Candy Girl: a Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper
Cody's writing is extremely clever, witty, and accessible. I was worried it was going to be too clever at first, but she calms down after the first couple of chapters. Not the over-the-top part, but the general feeling of it reminded me of Ayun Halliday's writing, so if you're an East Village Inky fan, you should like Candy Girl. The title pretty much says it all. Cody got it into her head, or heart really, to do some nude dancing and on-demand masturbating for a while in her mid-twenties. It happens.
reviewdate:
Apr 21 2010
isn:
978-1-592-40273-1
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Rivalry: a Geisha's Tale
Rivalry was one of the "disposable" books I brought to France with me, since it was not on loan from a library. I did, however, acquire it from a library. It was in our giveaway pile at Barnard, though I'm not sure why. It's a Columbia University Press publication and women's studies-ish enough that I would probably order it if I read a good review. It's a translation of a 1917 novel. Can you say "public domain"? Being an academic press publication, it's also got a six page introduction (that I didn't bother to read). Oops--now that I look at the intro, I realize that homosexual that I am as a media consumer, I might not have read it (and might not buy it for the library after all), that the author was a man.
reviewdate:
May 18 2009
isn:
978-0-231-14118-5