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Someday mija, you'll learn the difference between a whore and a working woman
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- Someday Mija, You'll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman is a memoir that turns time on its head, circling through terror and joy with eloquence and becoming its own sacrament of resistance.' - Foreword Reviews, 5-star review At eighteen, Yvonne Martinez flees brutal domestic violence and is taken in by her dying grandmother ... who used to be a sex worker. Before she dies, her grandmother reveals family secrets and shares her uncommon wisdom. 'Someday, Mija,' she tells Yvonne, 'you'll learn the difference between a whore and a working woman.' She also shares disturbing facts about their family's history - eventually leading Yvonne to discover that her grandmother was trafficked as a child in Depression-era Utah by her own mother, Yvonne's great-grandmother, and that she was blamed for her own rape. In the years that follow her grandmother's passing, Yvonne gets an education and starts a family. As she heals from her own abuse by her mother and stepfather, she becomes an advocate/labor activist. Grounded in her grandmother's dictum not to whore herself out, she learns to fight for herself and teaches others to do the same - exposing sexual harassment in the labor unions where she works and fighting corruption. Intense but ultimately uplifting, Someday Mija, You'll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman is a compelling memoir in essays of transforming transgenerational trauma into resilience and post-traumatic growth.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781647421021
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- She Writes Press, (18 October 2022)
- Number of Pages
- 256
- Weight
- 342 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 140 x 19 mm
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