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Book Street Girls of Tijuana

    Book Details:
  • Author : R. Ruhnau
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2010-02-01
  • ISBN : 9781449997069
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book Street Girls of Tijuana written by R. Ruhnau and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An all inclusive guidebook that shows you how to have fun in the Zona Norte of Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Save yourself way more money than the cost of this book by learning how to make a great selection and avoid the needless extra costs and scams. Get access to the private blog with reports and reviews on all the author's recent adventures with Street Girls. The author posts new entries every two weeks. The blog keeps it fresh.

Book Hotel Ritz   Comparing Mexican and U S  Street Prostitutes

Download or read book Hotel Ritz Comparing Mexican and U S Street Prostitutes written by R Dennis Shelby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore ways to reduce the rate of HIV infection in street prostitutes--and the inescapable connection between the heroin trade, prostitution, and HIV! This unique book draws on face-to-face interviews that the author conducted on the streets, with heroin-addicted street prostitutes in Southern California and their counterparts in four large Mexican cities. Author David James Bellis illustrates the significant--and surprising--differences in the risk of exposure to HIV and other STDs that exist between street prostitutes in the two countries arising from national differences in the legality, sociology, and economics of sex work. He points out that Mexican prostitutes, for whom sex work is a simple means of livelihood, are “choir girls” compared with their beaten-up, drug-addicted sisters north of the border who perform sex for drug money and are at much greater risk of HIV and other diseases, like Hepatitis C. This book explores those differences, suggesting new directions for United States prostitution and heroin-control policies--laws currently so interwoven that they reinforce each other, accounting for a deadly circle of crime and disease. In addition to the fascinating results of the author's interviews with 72 female street prostitutes in San Bernardino, California, and 102 more in Tijuana, Cd. Juárez, Cd. Victória, and Cuernavaca regarding their personal sexual, drug, and health practices, and their criminal histories, Hotel Ritz-Comparing Mexican and U.S. Street Prostitutes: Factors in HIV/AIDS Transmission explores: the licensing process for legal prostitutes in Mexico the medical testing that Mexico requires prostitutes to undergo the differences in what United States and Mexican prostitutes know about HIV transmission the difference in condom use between United States and Mexican prostitutes the potential benefits of reforming prostitution and drug laws in both countries the benefits of making methadone maintenence and syringes—and heroin—free for heroin-addicted prostitutes the proportion of United States/Mexican prostitutes who would quit the trade if they learned they had AIDS how the social support system in the United States (housing subsidies, TANF/AFDC money, food stamps, etc.) leads to a greater proportion of drug-addicted prostitutes than are found in Mexico Hotel Ritz-Comparing Mexican and U.S. Street Prostitutes: Factors in HIV/AIDS Transmission also provides you with a look at the hierarchy of female sex workers, an explanation of the etiology of AIDS transmission, and a concise history of heroin and prostitution. Helpful tables and an appendix containing the author's survey questions make the data in this well-referenced book easily understandable.

Book Sex Work and the City

Download or read book Sex Work and the City written by Yasmina Katsulis and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gateway at the U.S.-Mexico border, Tijuana is a complex urban center with a sizeable population of sex workers. An in-depth case study of the trade, Sex Work and the City is the first major ethnographic publication on contemporary prostitution in this locale, providing a detailed analysis of how sex workers' experiences and practices are shaped by policing and regulation. Contextualizing her research within the realm of occupational risk, Yasmina Katsulis examines the experiences of a diverse range of sex workers in the region and explores the implications of prostitution, particularly regarding the spheres of class hierarchies, public health, and other broad social effects. Based on eighteen months of intensive fieldwork and nearly 400 interviews with sex workers, customers, city officials, police, local health providers, and advocates, Sex Work and the City describes the arenas of power and the potential for disenfranchisement created by municipal laws designed to regulate the trade. Providing a detailed analysis of this subculture's significance within Tijuana and its implications for debates over legalization of "vice" elsewhere in the world, Katsulis draws on powerful narratives as workers describe the risks of their world, ranging from HIV/AIDS and rape (by police or customers) to depression, work-related stress, drug and alcohol addiction, and social stigma. Insightful and compelling, Sex Work and the City captures the lives (and deaths) of a population whose industry has broad implications for contemporary society at large.

Book Scribbles

Download or read book Scribbles written by Ray Carpenter and published by Book Hub Inc. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Ray Carpenter shares his life’s story in 'Scribbles,' a tale that takes readers on a journey from Graham County, around the world, and back again. Based on the author’s journal entries, Carpenter weaves the memorable, and at times humorous, tale of his life.

Book Prostitution  Trafficking  and Traumatic Stress

Download or read book Prostitution Trafficking and Traumatic Stress written by Melissa Farley, PhD and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-04-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress offers the reader an analysis of prostitution and trafficking as organized interpersonal violence. Even in academia, law, and public health, prostitution is often misunderstood as sex work. The book’s 32 contributors offer clinical examples, analysis, and original research that cou

Book Prostitution  Trafficking and Traumatic Stress

Download or read book Prostitution Trafficking and Traumatic Stress written by Melissa Farley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress documents the violence that runs like a constant thread throughout all types of prostitution, including escort, brothel, trafficking, strip club, and street prostitution. The book presents clinical examples, analysis, and original research, counteracting common myths about the harmlessness of prostitution. It explores the connections between prostitution, incest, sexual harassment, rape, and battering; looks at peer support programs for women escaping prostitution; examines clinical symptoms common among prostitutes; and much more.

Book Fixing Men

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew C. Gutmann
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2007-11-06
  • ISBN : 0520941233
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book Fixing Men written by Matthew C. Gutmann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most studies on reproductive rights make women their focus, but in Fixing Men, Matthew Gutmann illuminates what men in the Mexican state of Oaxaca say and do about contraception, sex, and AIDS. Based on extensive fieldwork, this breakthrough study by a preeminent anthropologist of men and masculinities reveals how these men and the women in their lives make decisions about birth control, how they cope with the plague of AIDS, and the contradictory healing techniques biomedical and indigenous medical practitioners employ for infertility, impotence, and infidelity. Gutmann talks with men during and after their vasectomies and discovers why some opt for sterilization while so many others feel "planned out of family planning."

Book Global Perspectives on Prostitution and Sex Trafficking

Download or read book Global Perspectives on Prostitution and Sex Trafficking written by Rochelle L. Dalla and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of a two-volume set that examines prostitution and sex trafficking on a global scale, with each chapter devoted to a particular country in one of seven "geo-cultural" areas of the world. The 18 chapters in this volume (Volume I) are devoted to examination of the commercial sex industry (CSI) in countries within Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Oceania, while the 16 chapters that comprise Volume II focus exclusively on Europe, Latin America, and North America. Volume II also includes a 'global' section, which includes chapters that are globally relevant — rather than those devoted to a particular country or geographic location. The content of each volume, as well as each chapter, reflects great diversity — diversity in focus, writing style, and personal position regarding the commercial sex industry. Diversity extends to the contributors, who are comprised of international scholars, service providers, and policy advocates representing a variety of fields and disciplines, with distinct and varied frames of reference and theoretical underpinnings with regard to the commercial sex industry. In addition to addressing aspects of the CSI across the globe, as impacted by geography and culture, authors have also provided a spectrum of implications of their work — implications ranging from continued scholarship and research, to legislative maneuvers and policy change, to suggestions for collaboration across NGOS, fieldworkers, clinicians, and service providers. Together, the 34 expertly-crafted chapters provide a wealth of knowledge from which to more deeply appreciate and contemplate the global commercial sex industry. By uniting contributors from around the world, this book aims to build a relatively common knowledge base on global prostitution and sex trafficking. Viewed from a unified, global perspective, it is hoped that this common understanding will lead to a grounded theory and integrated view with applicable suggestions for international efforts aimed at intervention, service, education, and continued scholarship.

Book ZONA NORTE

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Hemmingson
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2009-05-27
  • ISBN : 1443812013
  • Pages : 215 pages

Download or read book ZONA NORTE written by Michael Hemmingson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zona Norte: The Post-Structural Body of Erotic Dancers and Sex Workers in Tijuana, San Diego and Los Angeles: An Auto/ethnography of Desire and Addiction started out as an ethnographic study of prostitution on both sides of the U.S./Mexican border and, as cultural anthropologist Michael Hemmingson explains, turned inward as a study of the self, or what is referred to as “auto/ethnography” in today’s lexicon of qualitative research. The author studies himself within the culture of the Other –- he examines his feelings, memories, and reactions as he conducts his participant observations and interviews in the field, questioning why he chose to research erotic and exotic dancers, strippers, hookers, and various sex workers on both sides of an international border, revealing how the subjects are alike, and how they are different, and how they survive in their worlds. Auto/ethnography is one of the fastest growing and popular sub-fields in sociology, anthropology, and communications today. Books and anthologies are widely published, special journal issues appear each year on the subject, and there are an increasing number of dissertations in all fields of qualitative research cropping up from universities in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand. Zona Norte is the latest contribution to this vibrant new approach to living the ethnographic life, as both a scholar and autobiographer.

Book Begging as a Path to Progress

Download or read book Begging as a Path to Progress written by Kate Swanson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining beggars' organized migration networks, as well as the degree to which children can express agency and fulfill personal ambitions through begging, Swanson argues that Calhuasí, Equador's beggars are capable of canny engagement with the forces of change.

Book Women Trafficking  Migration and Prostitution

Download or read book Women Trafficking Migration and Prostitution written by Run Ingvarsdottir and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Street Casualties

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vicente Guerrero
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2007-02-07
  • ISBN : 1467800090
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Street Casualties written by Vicente Guerrero and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-02-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angel Andrade is a teenager raised by a single mother, whose childhood was spent in homeless shelters. In high school, desperate to fit in, desperate to have money, women, and respect, becomes a drug dealer thinking only about making easy money. In such world his innocence is lost. Full of greed and lust for riches, he gets himself deeper and deeper in the drug underworld and the lifestyle attached to it. He rises to power through violent murder and bribes to law enforcement officials in the Mexican border towns. When he is very engulfed in this lifestyle, he discovers love, and is that love that brings back his innocence. It is also at that time that his past catches up to him

Book Run for the Border

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven Bender
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2012-05-13
  • ISBN : 0814789528
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Run for the Border written by Steven Bender and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-05-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing for immigration reform based on negotiation and cross-border accord, offers an historical analysis of border crossings, both Mexico to the United States and the United States to Mexico, revealing the symbiotic relationship between the two countries and their shared economic and cultural legacy.

Book Reports and Documents

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 2106 pages

Download or read book Reports and Documents written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on with total page 2106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Feminism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nadia Abushanab Higgins
  • Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 1467761478
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book Feminism written by Nadia Abushanab Higgins and published by Twenty-First Century Books (Tm). This book was released on 2016 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of feminism, discussing the three waves of the movement and the issues that feminism addresses, including such topics as reproductive rights, domestic violence, income inequality, and body image.

Book Puttin  on Airs

Download or read book Puttin on Airs written by Benton L. Bradberry and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horatio Alger wrote wildly popular dime novels in the mid to late 1800s about poor boys making good. the theme was always the same; that through honesty, hard work, strong determination,and perseverance, the American Dream could be realized regardless of his beginnings in life. "Puttin' on Airs" is the author's own story of himself as a poor boy who made good against the odds, a story which could have been written by Horatio Alger. the author describes his life growing up in rural Louisiana as one often children of uneducated parents, under conditions of spirit crushing poverty. He escaped this life by joining the Navy at age 17. Within 5 years time he became an offi cer and aviator and went on to complete a 21 year Navy career. In time he obtained a university degree (with honors), the only member of his family to even attend college. Only 2 of the 10 children even graduated from high school, himself and a sister. "Join the Navy and see the world," the recruiting poster said, and see the world, he did. He has been on 6 continents and in over 40 countries. He was also on the front line of the Cold War from near its beginning to near its end, which included a year in Viet Nam as a helicopter pilot. As a helicopter pilot, he also helped retrieve the astronauts from the sea after their return to earth. with the same determination and grit that propelled him in his Navy career, he entered private business after retiring from the Navy, which has made him a wealthy man. This well written book should be an inspiration to anyone who enjoys a good rags to riches story.

Book Women and Migration in the U S  Mexico Borderlands

Download or read book Women and Migration in the U S Mexico Borderlands written by Denise A. Segura and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminal essays on how women adapt to the structural transformations caused by the large migration from Mexico to the U.S.A., how they create or contest representations of their identities in light of their marginality, and give voice to their own agency.