Exiting Prostitution: A Study in Female Desistance

How people move from deviant to conventional lifestyles is an issue that has attracted considerable interest over the past few years. However, much of this work has focused on men desisting from crime. This book provides one of the first examinations of desistance which is centred on women and, more specifically, how they exit prostitution.

Politics & Social Sciences

Bindel, Julie

Young, Lisa

Matthews, R.

Easton, Helen

Philosophy

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This book examines one of the most contested issues facing feminists, human rights activists and governments around the globe – the international sex trade. For decades, the liberal left has been conflicted as to whether pro-prostitution activists or abolitionists hold the correct view, and debates are ongoing as to who holds the key to the solutions facing the women and girls involved. Over the course of two years, Bindel conducted 250 interviews in almost 40 countries, cities and states, traveling around Europe, Asia, North America, Australia, New Zealand, and East and South Africa. Visiting legal brothels all around the world, Bindel got to know pimps, pornographers, survivors of the sex trade, and the women being sold by men classed as ‘business entrepreneurs’. Whilst meeting feminist abolitionists, pro-prostitution campaigners, police and government officials, and the men who drive the demand, Bindel uncovered the lies, mythology and criminal activity that shroud this global trade, and suggests here a way forward for the women seeking to abolish the oldest oppression. Informed by the lived human experience of those interviewed, this book will be of great interest to feminists, students, criminal justice advocates, criminologists and human rights activists.

The Pimping of Prostitution: Abolishing the Sex Work Myth

Science & Math

Social Sciences

Part feminist manifesto, part call to arms, Feminism for Women is a radical, new exploration of feminism. A frontline activist in the campaign to end male violence for the last four decades, Julie Bindel is a leading voice in the feminist movement. In her fight for women's rights, she has been up against innumerable barricades, fought the enemy, hailed great successes, witnessed pivotal moments and created groundbreaking feminist theory and practice.\nThis blistering polemic examines the way anti-feminist men, and the women who collaborate with them, have tried to push the women's liberation movement into the wilderness and how radical feminists have resisted and wrestled back the reins. In charting this history, Bindel will look clearly to the future and how younger, newer feminists can become radical again without the threat of being ostracised, bullied or ridiculed.\nDrawing on interviews with renowned activists, Bindel conjures a vivid image of the current state of feminism. At its heart, Feminism for Women is a complex, personal journey of how feminism has evolved over the years - and a thoughtful investigation of what it means to be a feminist in the 21st century.

Feminism for Women

History

Constable

Review\nBindel is a rock star of second-wave feminism . . . an important, courageous book―Melanie Reid, The Times\nBindel . . . has written a Ronseal book, one that functions as a kind of primer for all matters pertaining to the 
current state of feminism . . . bracing to read, and inspiriting . . . Bindel speaks - in a voice that is resolute, undaunted after all these years . . . and if her text doesn't come with easy solutions to our problems, it is nevertheless guaranteed to remind us what we have still to fight for. I can't think of a single person who wouldn't benefit from reading it―Rachel Cooke, Observer\nAn impassioned manifesto―Kathleen Stock, The Spectator\nHow are young women today meant to know what sort of feminist we need to be to achieve women's liberation? Julie Bindel is here to tell us how to do it properly . . . Bindel delivers a robust call to arms in every chapter . . . this book could not be timelier as the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic on women's lives become more stark . . . Feminism for Women should deliver hope to those who feel lost . . . Feminism for Women is a considered deconstruction of some of the myths pervading the modern feminist movement, and how, by going back to the basics, it can be fixed. As a young feminist who has finally seen the light, I consider it essential reading―Olivia Hartley, The Critic\nPromises to breathe life back into the movement . . . a righteous expression of solidarity with women, by women, for women. Bindel writes with compelling fury about issues like intimate partner violence, corrupt police who make it fraught and difficult for women to report rape, the systems set up to privilege abusers over victims―Kat Rosenfield, Unherd\nBindel makes a call to reset the feminist movement and resist the normalisation of sexual violence―Guardian\nTimely, necessary and important―J.K. Rowling\nEnlightening, infuriating and hopeful. Julie Bindel hits all the relevant points when it comes to feminism and what it means―Martina Navratilova\nJulie Bindel - one of the bravest, smartest journalists and campaigners out there - draws on a fearless lifetime on the front line of feminism and offers a refreshing, sometimes provocative, wake-up call for women of all ages―Samira Ahmed\nA sharply argued, deftly written examination of where feminism is at in 2021 - and where feminists should go next―Selina Todd\nWhoever gave away feminism, look out, because Julie Bindel wants it back―Cordelia Fine\nBindel's campaigning to end male violence is the rallying call men need to join the fight―David Challen\nFeminism for Women needs to come with a very large trigger warning: 'this book may change your mind'. Written for young feminists, it should be read by everyone. Bindel has rescued the story of radical feminism from airless conference halls and impenetrable Gender Studies courses specialising in erasing feminists and our histories―Gita Sahgal\nI disagree with Bindel on some issues but God, she's my kind of feminist . . . She is fearless. I love her―Ian Martin\n'Timely, necessary and important' J.K. Rowling\n'[This book is] guaranteed to remind us what we have still to fight for. I can't think of a single person who wouldn't benefit from reading it' Observer\n'Bindel is a rock star of second-wave feminism . . . an important, courageous book' The Times\n'Bindel delivers a robust call to arms in every chapter . . . this book could not be timelier . . . As a young feminist who has finally seen the light, I consider it essential reading' The Critic\nFeminism is a quest for the liberation of women from patriarchy. Feminism strives for a world in which women are not oppressed. Feminism prioritises exposing and ending male violence towards women and girls.\nThis is Julie Bindel's feminism, a definition born of 40 years at the front line of the feminist movement. Why then, she asks, is feminism the only social justice movement in the world that is expected to prioritise every o

Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation

World

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