Paid for : my journey through prostitution / Rachel Moran.
Publication details: North Melbourne, Victoria : Spinifex Press, 2013.Edition: [Australian edition]Description: x, 295 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781742198620 :
- 306.742092 23
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library | 306.742092 MOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library | 67063 |
"First published in Australia by Spinifex Press, 2013. Originally published in Ireland by Gill & Macmillan, Dublin."--Title page verso.
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When you are fifteen years old and destitute, too unskilled to work and too young to claim unemployment benefit, your body is all you have left to sell. Rachel Moran grew up in severe poverty and a painfully troubled family. Taken into state care at fourteen, she became homeless and was in prostitution by the age of fifteen. For the next seven years Rachel lived life as a prostituted woman, isolated, drug-addicted, alienated. Rachel Moran's experience was one of violence, loneliness, and relentless exploitation and abuse. Her story reveals the emotional cost of selling your body night after night in order to survive ? loss of innocence, loss of self-worth and a loss of connection from mainstream society that makes it all the more difficult to escape the prostitution world.
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