Melissa Farley Quotes

• Prostitution myths justify the existence of prostitution, promote misinformation about prostitution, and contribute to a social climate that exploits and harms not only prostituted women but all women.

  Melissa Farley

  Climate, Social, Prostitution

  "Attitudes Toward Prostitution and Acceptance of Rape Myths". Journal of Applied Social Psychology Vol. 32, issue 9, Abstract, onlinelibrary.wiley.com. September 2002.

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• We feminists think that women deserve the right NOT to prostitute.

  Melissa Farley

  Thinking, Feminist, Deserve

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• For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.

  Melissa Farley

  Historical, Prostitution, Colonization

  "Prostitution in Vancouver: Violence and the Colonization of First Nations Women". Transcultural Psychiatry 42, article co-written with J. Lynne and A. Cotton, 2005.

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• Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.

  Melissa Farley

  Race, Class, Hierarchy

  "Prostitution in Vancouver: Violence and the Colonization of First Nations Women". Transcultural Psychiatry 42, article co-written with J. Lynne and A. Cotton, 2005.

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