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100 1  $a Martinez, Yvonne, $d 1949- $e author.
245 10 $a Someday mija, you'll learn the difference between a whore and a working woman : $b a memoir / $c Yvonne Martinez.
246 3  $a Someday mija, you will learn the difference between a whore and a working woman
264  1 $a Berkeley, CA : $b She Writes Press, $c 2022.
300    $a xiii, 237 pages ; $c 22 cm
520    $a "At 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. "Someday, Mija," she tells Yvonne, "you'll learn the difference between a whore and a working woman." 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."-- $c Amazon.com.
546    $a Text primarily in English, with some Spanish words and phrases.
600 10 $a Martinez, Yvonne, $d 1949-
600 10 $a Martinez, Yvonne, $d 1949- $x Family.
650  0 $a Mexican American women labor leaders $v Biography.
650  0 $a Mexican American women labor union members $v Biography.
650  0 $a Women labor leaders $v Biography.
650  0 $a Women labor union members $v Biography.
650  0 $a Women social reformers $v Biography.
650  0 $a Adult child abuse victims $v Biography.
650  0 $a Sexual harassment of women.
650  0 $a Child abuse.
650  0 $a Family violence.
650  0 $a Psychic trauma.
650  0 $a Mental healing.
655  7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft
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