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Publisher
Distributed by Winstar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001], c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in late nineteenth-century Shanghai and takes place in an elegant brothel. With its own highly ritualized codes of behavior, the lives of the "Flower girls" depend on their ability to win, and then keep, the affections of their wealthy callers.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Formats
Description
"Cold and poverty define Hanna Renström's childhood in remote northern Sweden, and in 1905, at nineteen, she boards a ship for Australia in hope of a better life. But none of her hopes--or fears--prepares her for the life she will lead. After two brief marriages, she finds herself a widow twice over, and the owner of a bordello in Portuguese East Africa, a world where colonialism and white supremacy rule, where she is isolated within society by her...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a turn-of-the-century Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. Shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional madam, arrives soon after construction begins. She offers to help McCabe run his business and the whorehouse thrives. McCabe and Mrs. Miller draw closer, despite their conflicting intelligences and philosophies. Soon, however, the mining deposits in the town attract the attention of a major corporation,...
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
156 p. : port. ; 21 cm.
Description
How Poetry Saved My Life, Amber Dawn's sophomore book, reveals an even more poignant and personal landscape--the terrain of sex work, queer identity, and survivor pride. This memoir, told in prose and poetry, offers a frank, multifaceted portrait of the author's experiences hustling the streets of Vancouver, and the how those years took away her self-esteem and nearly destroyed her; at the crux of this autobiographical narrative is the tender celebration...
Series
Criterion collection volume 512
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (39 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Description
In a series of twelve vignettes, follows Nana, a young Parisian who aspires to be an actress, but a downward spiral forces her into prostitution.
7) Razor sharp
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 14
Formats
Description
A Friend In Need…Needs The Sisterhood
When it comes to repaying a debt, the women of the Sisterhood-Myra, Annie, Kathryn, Alexis, Yoko, Nikki, and Isabelle-never forget. And now one of their allies needs help only they can give. A powerful attorney with a cut-throat reputation, Lizzie Fox has just taken on a high-profile new client-Lily Flowers, the Madam of a high-end bordello operating under the guise of a summer camp.
The chips-a.k.a. the prominent...
9) Traffick
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
505 pages ; 19 cm
Description
Five teens victimized by sex trafficking try to find their way to a new life. There's Eden, the preacher's daughter who turns tricks in Vegas and is helped into a child prostitution rescue. Seth, the gay farm boy disowned by his father who finds himself without money or resources other than his own body. Whitney, the privileged kid coaxed into the life by a pimp and whose dreams are ruined in a heroin haze. Ginger, who runs away from home with her...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
294 pages
Description
"In post-WWII Paris, Madame Claude ran the most exclusive finishing school in the world. Her alumnae married more fortunes, titles and famous names than any of the Seven Sisters. The names on her client list were epic-Kennedy, Rothschild, Agnelli, Onassis, Niarchos, Brando, Sinatra, McQueen, Picasso, Chagall, Qaddafi, the Shah, and that's just for starters. By the 1950s, she was the richest and most celebrated self-made woman in Europe, as much of...
Series
Criterion collection volume 277
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
Mike and Scott, two young male prostitutes from different backgrounds, embark on a quest to find Mike's mother.
Publisher
Laguna Films
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Comedia familiar en donde el "Coyote" tiene muchas aventuras con la "Bronca" despues de vivir en el bajo mundo del dinero facil y la prostitución pasan a ser perseguidos por la justicia para finalmente verse envueltos en un sentimiento que los uniria para siempre.
Comedy film with the "Coyote" (Vicente Fernandez) having many adventures with the "Bronca" (Blanca Guerra). The Bronca, after a life of prostitution, is chased by the police. The Coyote...
Series
Criterion collection volume 484
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
Jeanne Dielman is a young widow who goes through her daily domestic routine including making the bed, cooking for her grown son, and turning the occasional trick.
14) Night shift
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Description
Charles Lumley [Winkler] used to be a high-pressure Wall Street financial analyst, but now he's working the night shift at the New York City morgue. There everything is very quiet, until Billy Blazejowski [Keaton] turns up with an X-rated idea for making money.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xxiv, 356 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"A vivid snapshot of America's journey from Victorian-era propriety to 20th-century modernity. Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history--and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago at the dawn of the 20th century, the Club welcomed moguls and actors, senators and athletes, foreign dignitaries and literary icons into a stately double mansion, and the Everleigh...
17) The insect woman
Series
Criterion collection volume 473
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Portrays 45 years in the life of a woman and her struggles to survive. The story progresses from her life as a country girl to her years as a successful and ruthless madam in Tokyo and back again to her native village.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
In this book is a story of triumph and a fierce determination to give back. The author was a runner. By twelve, she had run away from home, dropped out of school, and fled blindly into the arms of a brutal pimp, who made her walk the hard streets of central California. But even when she escaped him, she could not outrun the crushing inner pain of abuse, neglect, and abandonment. With little to hope for, she expected to end up in prison, or worse....
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Russian émigré countess Natascha becomes a stowaway in the shipboard stateroom of U.S. diplomat Ogden in order to escape her life of forced prostitution in Hong Kong. Her plan is to blackmail her way to freedom in the States but Ogden has a mind of his own and can resist even the charms of a countess.
20) Gate of flesh
Series
Criterion collection volume 298
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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