Suchergebnisse

A searing and fearless anthology of essays exploring the profound impact of money on women's lives, edited by prominent feminist and writer Rebecca Walker.

This article examines the vulnerabilities and forms of structural violence experienced by migrant mothers who sell sex. In Johannesburg, migrant sex workers face multiple vulnerabilities including abuse, discrimination, criminalisation, and many levels of violence, directed particularly at non-nationals. For migrant mothers selling sex, these vulnerabilities increase as they balance the responsibilities of providing for their dependants with the risks and challenges that selling sex entails. Drawing from semi-structured interviews with cross-border migrant women, this article explores their difficulties in accessing healthcare, in finding accommodation, widespread stigmatisation and xenophobia. The article argues that to develop a greater understanding of women who are migrants, who sell sex and who are mothers, there is a need to further explore the challenges that they face as well as the multiple roles negotiated in everyday life.

Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Three Fates -- 2. Childhood -- 3. When Life Descends into the Pit -- 4. All Praises to the Pause -- The Universal Moment of Reflection -- 5. Crimes Against Dog -- 6.This Was Not an Area of Large Plantations: Suffering Too Insignificant For the Majority to See -- 7. I Call That Man Religious Healing the Universal Heart: Becoming Intimate with That Which Is Foreign -- 8. Now that You Are with Me Like My People and The Dignity of the World -- 9. Metta to Muriel and Other Marvels: A Poet's Experience of Meditation -- 10. How It Feels to Know Someone Died for You: Living with the Voice of the Beloved -- 11. The Glimpse of Life Beyond the Words -- 12. Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit -- 13. Orchids -- 14. To Be Led by Happiness (Re: March 8, 2003) -- Permissions.