Someday Mija, You'll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman (eBook)

A Memoir

Yvonne Martinez (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
256 Seiten
She Writes Press (Verlag)
978-1-64742-103-8 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;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."e; -Foreword Reviews, 5-star reviewAt 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. "e;Someday, Mija,"e; she tells Yvonne, "e;you'll learn the difference between a whore and a working woman."e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.7.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • Child Abuse • Childhood Trauma • child trafficking • Domestic Abuse • family secrets • Fighting corruption • Great Depression • Growth after trauma • Healing from trauma memoir • Human Trafficking • inspirational true story • Labor organizer • Labor Unions • Latinx memoir • PTSD • union organizing • Workplace Harassment
• ISBN-10: 1-64742-103-9 / 1647421039
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64742-103-8 / 9781647421038