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The Red Light Girls

Author : Kim Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1952805457

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The Red Light Girls by Kim Knight Pdf

Amsterdam's a fun and exciting city set on edge.When women linked to the Red Light District turn up dead in the Amsterdamse Bose woodland area or missing, not many take notice.Madeline Sloane, a ballsy journalist for London's tabloid papers, is bored with her job and surroundings. She finds herself in Amsterdam, working for De Telegraaf newspaper. Her new job becomes her obsession. A deep-seated determination drives her to close-in on the person responsible for the fates of the Red Light Girls. She reports on the city's events, appeals for information, and forms a plan of action-one born of her intuition that guides her to a suspect.One person stands in her way of finding Amsterdam's serial killer, and not everything is as it seems in Madeline's world.The Red Light Girls is a novella-length, fast-moving story with a touch of mystery, Madeline Sloane is a head-strong female on a mission to cover areas the local police have failed, and the more she digs, the closer she comes to solving an unsolved mystery.Connect with Kim on social media:Author Website: https://kimknightauthor.com/Facebook: @kimknightauthorukTwitter: @kimknightauthorShe's also on Bookbub @KimKnight

Body for Rent

Author : Olivia Smit,Anna Hendriks
Publisher : Trapeze
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781409192756

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Body for Rent by Olivia Smit,Anna Hendriks Pdf

Growing up in a quiet, middle-class suburb outside of Amsterdam, childhood best friends Anna and Olivia had their whole lives ahead of them. But every parent's worst nightmare came true when the teenagers fell in with the wrong crowd. Eleven years their senior, Ricardo was charming and good-looking - and Anna and Olivia easy prey. Blind to his grooming, the girls were soon trapped in a terrifying cycle of sexual and physical abuse. But their nightmare was only just beginning. Trafficked to the neon-lit windows of Amsterdam's Red Light District, Anna and Olivia were forced to work as prostitutes, servicing countless men night after night against their will. Body for Rent reveals the disturbing truth behind Amsterdam's Red Light District, and the shocking ease with which ordinary girls can be exploited. But despite the unimaginable horrors they endured, the damage done to their bodies and their minds, their friendship remained as strong as ever, giving them hope that one day, they would escape...

Good Time Girls of the Pacific Northwest

Author : Jan MacKell Collins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493038107

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Good Time Girls of the Pacific Northwest by Jan MacKell Collins Pdf

Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose or were forced to enter an industry where they faced segregation and persecution, fines and jailing, and battled the hazards of disease, drug addiction, physical abuse, and pregnancy. They dreamed of escape through marriage or retirement, but more often found relief only in death. An integral part of western history, the stories of these women continue to fascinate readers and captivate the minds of historians today.

Red Light Women of the Rocky Mountains

Author : Jan MacKell
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826346124

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Red Light Women of the Rocky Mountains by Jan MacKell Pdf

Throughout the development of the American West, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Rocky Mountains. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose or were forced to enter an industry where they faced segregation and persecution, fines and jailing, and battled the hazards of disease, drug addiction, physical abuse, pregnancy, and abortion. They dreamed of escape through marriage or retirement, but more often found relief only in death. An integral part of western history, the stories of these women continue to fascinate readers and captivate the minds of historians today. Expanding on the research she did for Brothels, Bordellos, and Bad Girls (UNM Press), historian Jan MacKell moves beyond the mining towns of Colorado to explore the history of prostitution in the Rocky Mountain states of Arizona, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Each state had its share of working girls and madams like Big Nose Kate or Calamity Jane who remain celebrities in the annals of history, but MacKell also includes the stories of lesser-known women whose role in this illicit trade nonetheless shaped our understanding of the American West.

Red Light Ladies

Author : Yolanda Olson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1518696902

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Red Light Ladies by Yolanda Olson Pdf

Sold into the Red Light District to pay off a debt that was never hers, Amity Crane has a long road in front of her. Beaten and used at almost every turn, she wonders how much longer she can endure. But when she starts to form alliances and threatens the very stability of the house she's been sold into, nothing goes according to plan. How much longer can Amity survive in the hell she's in? Will it ever end and will she ever earn her freedom?

Amsterdam Exposed

Author : David Wienir
Publisher : de Wallen Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0999355902

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Amsterdam Exposed by David Wienir Pdf

Amsterdam Exposed tells the true one-of-a-kind story of an innocent exchange student who moves to Amsterdam hoping to write a book about the red light district and everything that follows. "A provocative, enlightening, humorous, and impressively executed guide to Amsterdam's twilight world." -- Kirkus Reviews

Red Light Women of Death Valley

Author : Robin Flinchum
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625855527

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Red Light Women of Death Valley by Robin Flinchum Pdf

“Focuses on the lives of several prostitutes who worked in Death Valley area boomtowns between the 1870s and the early 1900s . . . Colorful and intriguing” (Pahrump Valley Times). From the 1870s to the turn of the century, while countless men gambled their fortunes in Death Valley’s mines, many bold women capitalized on the boom-and-bust lifestyle and established saloons and brothels. These lively ladies were clever entrepreneurs and fearless adventurers but also mothers, wives, and respected members of their communities. Madam Lola Travis was one of the wealthiest single women in Inyo County in the 1870s. Known as “Diamond Tooth Lil,” Evelyn Hildegard was a poor immigrant girl who became a western legend. Local author and historian Robin Flinchum chronicles the lives of these women and many others who were unafraid to live outside the bounds of polite society and risk everything for a better future in the forbidding Death Valley desert. Includes photos! “Flinchum’s lively prose and detailed descriptions bring these women into focus, and provide a historically accurate and interesting overview of Death Valley’s pioneering mining era.” —Sierra Wave Media “A thoroughly entertaining and highly enlightening account of the wild Death Valley boom camps’ daring red light ladies . . . A very enjoyable and engaging book. A great read!” —Richard Lingenfelter, author of Death Valley & the Amargosa: A Land of Illusion

Prostitution and Sex Work

Author : Melissa Hope Ditmore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216133339

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Prostitution and Sex Work by Melissa Hope Ditmore Pdf

A fascinating overview of prostitution and sex work in the United States, from the Colonial era to today, examines the issue as it affects men, women, and transgender individuals of all races and classes. Prostitution and Sex Work is the first book since 1921 to offer a historic overview of this controversial topic—and what our views on it say about American society. Exploring key people, places, and events, the guide includes descriptions of the myriad variations of the sale of sex and of the venues where prostitution occurs, as well as recurring themes such as panics about sexually transmitted diseases and the ever-present issue of violence in the sex trade. After reviewing the history of prostitution and sex work over the past 400 years, the book offers detailed information about the legal context of prostitution in America during the last century. It focuses particularly on the period since prostitution was criminalized during a panic over "white slavery" in the early 20th century, drawing parallels with current "sex trafficking" topics. An appendix of materials produced by sex workers is especially informative for those wishing to truly understand both sides of the issue.

Bad Girls of the Arab World

Author : Nadia Yaqub,Rula Quawas
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477313381

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Bad Girls of the Arab World by Nadia Yaqub,Rula Quawas Pdf

Women's transgressive behaviors and perspectives are challenging societal norms in the Arab world, giving rise to anxiety and public debate. Simultaneously, however, other Arab women are unwillingly finding themselves labeled "bad" as authority figures attempt to redirect scrutiny from serious social ills such as patriarchy and economic exploitation, or as they impose new restrictions on women's behavior in response to uncertainty and change in society. Bad Girls of the Arab World elucidates how both intentional and unintentional transgressions make manifest the social and cultural constructs that define proper and improper behavior, as well as the social and political policing of gender, racial, and class divisions. The works collected here address the experiences of women from a range of ages, classes, and educational backgrounds who live in the Arab world and beyond. They include short pieces in which the women themselves reflect on their experiences with transgression; academic articles about performance, representation, activism, history, and social conditions; an artistic intervention; and afterwords by the acclaimed novelists Laila al-Atrash and Miral al-Tahawy. The book demonstrates that women's transgression is both an agent and a symptom of change, a site of both resistance and repression. Showing how transnational forces such as media discourses, mobility and confinement, globalization, and neoliberalism, as well as the legacy of colonialism, shape women's badness, Bad Girls of the Arab World offers a rich portrait of women's varied experiences at the boundaries of propriety in the twenty-first century.

Minneapolis Madams

Author : Penny A. Petersen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816688609

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Minneapolis Madams by Penny A. Petersen Pdf

Sex, money, and politics—no, it’s not a thriller novel. Minneapolis Madams is the surprising and riveting account of the Minneapolis red-light district and the powerful madams who ran it. Penny Petersen brings to life this nearly forgotten chapter of Minneapolis history, tracing the story of how these “houses of ill fame” rose to prominence in the late nineteenth century and then were finally shut down in the early twentieth century. In their heyday Minneapolis brothels were not only open for business but constituted a substantial economic and political force in the city. Women of independent means, madams built custom bordellos to suit their tastes and exerted influence over leading figures and politicians. Petersen digs deep into city archives, period newspapers, and other primary sources to illuminate the Minneapolis sex trade and its opponents, bringing into focus the ideologies and economic concerns that shaped the lives of prostitutes, the men who used their services, and the social-purity reformers who sought to eradicate their trade altogether. Usually written off as deviants, madams were actually crucial components of a larger system of social control and regulation. These entrepreneurial women bought real estate, hired well-known architects and interior decorators to design their bordellos, and played an important part in the politics of the developing city. Petersen argues that we cannot understand Minneapolis unless we can grasp the scope and significance of its sex trade. She also provides intriguing glimpses into racial interactions within the vice economy, investigating an African American madam who possibly married into one of the city’s most prestigious families. Fascinating and rigorously researched, Minneapolis Madams is a true detective story and a key resource for anyone interested in the history of women, sexuality, and urban life in Minneapolis.

Good Time Girls of Nevada and Utah

Author : Jan MacKell Collins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781493050994

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Good Time Girls of Nevada and Utah by Jan MacKell Collins Pdf

As settlements and civilization moved West to follow the lure of mineral wealth and the trade of the Santa Fe Trail, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities the nineteenth-century Nevada and Utah. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose or were forced to enter an industry where they faced segregation and persecution, fines and jailing, and battled the other hazards of their profession. Some dreamed of escape through marriage or retirement, and some became infamous and even successful, but more often found relief only in death. An integral part of western history, the stories of these women continue to fascinate readers and captivate the minds of historians today. Nevada and Utah each had their share of working girls and madams who remain notorious celebrities in the annals of history, like Kate Flint and Dora Topham, but Collins also includes the stories of lesser-known women whose roles in this illicit trade help shape our understanding of the American West.

Taboo!

Author : Fouzia Saeed
Publisher : Made For Success Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Lahore (Pakistan)
ISBN : 9781613398470

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Taboo! by Fouzia Saeed Pdf

Taboo! is a journey of discovery into a famous red light district of Lahore, Pakistan, known as Shahi Mohalla, the Royal Bazaar, or Heera Mandi, the market of diamonds. The phenomenon of prostitution coupled with music and dance performances has ancient roots in South Asia. Regardless of the stigma attached to the prostitution, it has given birth for centuries to many well-known performing artists. The book captures a more realistic picture of the phenomenon through the stories of the people living there: the musicians, the prostitutes and their pimps, managers and customers. These people are struggling to make a living by following ancient traditions, yet not knowing clearly where they fit in the larger picture of present day society. Taboo! helps eradicate a blind spot in our understanding of the power relations associated with gender roles throughout our society.

Red Light, Green Light

Author : Anastasia Suen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547544212

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Red Light, Green Light by Anastasia Suen Pdf

Roll into one little boy's make-believe traffic world, filled with flashing lights, zooming cars, whirring helicopters, and racing fire engines. He's turned records into rotaries, shoe boxes and books into highway ramps, crayons into lane markers, and dandelions into trees. It's a world where imagination rules and creativity abounds. With its bouncy rhyming text and bright illustrations, this book is perfect for every preschooler who loves planes, trains, and automobiles. It's a bold introduction to how vehicles stop . . . and go!

George and Maggie and the Red Light Saloon

Author : Rod Cook
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780595294077

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George and Maggie and the Red Light Saloon by Rod Cook Pdf

This is the true story of George and Maggie Wood, a young couple who in 1880, in a fledgling cowtown that sprang up from the dust of the old Chisholm Trail, built the "largest dance house in Kansas". [read that -- cat house.] In a formidable two-month trek through the dusty plains of Texas and the "Indian Nations," brash young cowboys drove the longhorns to the railhead at the Kansas state line. There they emerged at Caldwell, Kansas; primed for celebration in that wide-open cowtown fondly known to them as "The Queen of the Border." Wild, wooly and dangerous, in its futile effort to hold a lid on the cowboys' rampant and often times violent revelry, the town ran through 15 marshals in the six year period of the cattle drives between 1879 and 1885. Continuously besieged by murder and depravation, the town was locked in a love-hate alliance with the many dens that catered to the roughshod instincts of the hell-raising cowboys. Festering at the heart of this perpetual bedlam was the number-one attraction of the Border Queen; George and Maggie's Red Light Saloon, the wellspring of murder and violence; and the epitome of debauchery and just plain nasty wickedness.

Red Light, Green Light, Eat Right

Author : Joanna Dolgoff
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-22
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781605292298

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Red Light, Green Light, Eat Right by Joanna Dolgoff Pdf

Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions: More than 18 million American children are considered obese and are at risk for health problems. In fact, today's generation of kids may be the first to experience shorter life spans than their parents. Leading pediatrician Dr. Joanna Dolgoff's Red Light, Green Light, Eat Right teaches kids how to make healthy choices based on the principles of the traffic light: green light foods are nutritious, yellow light foods are eaten in moderation, and red light foods are occasional treats. The program, which has a proven 96 percent success rate, can be tailored to suit any child's age, gender, and weight goals. Snacks and meals are designed to ensure that kids get the nutrients they need to not only lose or maintain weight, but to grow strong, healthy bodies. Complete with sample menus, recipes, and an index of more than 1,000 color-coded foods, Red Light, Green Light, Eat Right provides a practical solution for one of the biggest health crises facing America's children.