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Book SynopsisFocusing on four different organizations based in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and Hartford that help prostitutes get off the streets, this book explores the difficulties, rewards, and public responses to female street prostitutes' transition out of sex work.
Trade Review"Leaving Prostitutionchallenges us to notice the vulnerability women experience as street prostitutes but also to honor the choices women make and the strength and commitment they demonstrate as they create new lives away from the street." * PsycCRITQUES *
"Leaving Prostitution is a major contribution to our understanding of sex work. Through an in-depth examination of organizations that help women transition out of street prostitution, Sharon Oselin sheds light on a dimension of sex work that has rarely been researched. The book illuminates both the organizational dynamics of different agencies and the conditions involved in the process of exiting prostitution. No other book examines this topic in such depth." -- Ronald Weitzer,author of Legalizing Prostitution: From Illicit Vice to Lawful Business
"Oselins book is an all too rare, wide angled look at organizations helping individuals exit stigmatized and illegal subcultures and the conditions that determine success. What she finds is shocking despite the vast attention devoted to & saving prostitutes, the long term, often expensive residential programs most successful in countering the stigmatizing, criminalized world of the streets, are rare. Troubling all easy narratives about prostitution, this book will be an eye opener for policy makers and service providers hoping to help those who want to leave the streets/exit stigmatizing and illegal subcultures." -- Barbara Brents,co-author of The State of Sex: Tourism, Sex, and Sin in the New American Heartland
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Leaving the Tricks and the Trade 2. All in a Day's Work: The Good, Bad, and Ugly 3. Getting In: From the Streets to the Program 4. Getting On: Role Distancing 5. Still Getting On: Embracing a New Role and Identity 6. Getting Out: Remaining Out of Sex Work Methodological Appendix Notes References IndexAbout the Author
