Prostitutes
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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At the intersection of social conscience and raw human experience, Jeremy Sandford's Prostitutes presents an unflinching documentary portrait of sex workers in Britain, drawing on extensive interviews and fieldwork to give voice to a community long silenced by stigma and law. The author — already celebrated for his groundbreaking television dramas Cathy Come Home and Edna, the Inebriate Woman — chronicles the daily realities, dangers, and motivations of women working on the margins of society, dismantling comfortable myths with rigorous, empathetic journalism. Sandford's signature style blends investigative reportage with deep human compassion, arguing that prostitution is not a moral failing but a symptom of systemic poverty, inequality, and social neglect. Much like his earlier works that rattled the conscience of a nation, Prostitutes confronts its readers with uncomfortable truths about class, gender, and the state's complicity in exploitation — leaving one to wonder how little, or how much, has truly changed.
Author: Jeremy Sandford
Format: Paperback
Genre: Society & culture
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the intersection of social conscience and raw human experience, Jeremy Sandford's Prostitutes presents an unflinching documentary portrait of sex workers in Britain, drawing on extensive interviews and fieldwork to give voice to a community long silenced by stigma and law. The author — already celebrated for his groundbreaking television dramas Cathy Come Home and Edna, the Inebriate Woman — chronicles the daily realities, dangers, and motivations of women working on the margins of society, dismantling comfortable myths with rigorous, empathetic journalism. Sandford's signature style blends investigative reportage with deep human compassion, arguing that prostitution is not a moral failing but a symptom of systemic poverty, inequality, and social neglect. Much like his earlier works that rattled the conscience of a nation, Prostitutes confronts its readers with uncomfortable truths about class, gender, and the state's complicity in exploitation — leaving one to wonder how little, or how much, has truly changed.