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Author:
Martinez, Yvonne, 1949- author.
Title:
Someday mija, you'll learn the difference between a whore and a working woman : a memoir / Yvonne Martinez.
Publisher:
She Writes Press,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
xiii, 237 pages ; 22 cm
Subject:
Martinez, Yvonne,--1949-
Martinez, Yvonne,--1949---Family.
Mexican American women labor leaders--Biography.
Mexican American women labor union members--Biography.
Women labor leaders--Biography.
Women labor union members--Biography.
Women social reformers--Biography.
Adult child abuse victims--Biography.
Sexual harassment of women.
Child abuse.
Family violence.
Psychic trauma.
Mental healing.
Autobiographies.
Summary:
"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."-- Amazon.com.
ISBN:
9781647421021
1647421020
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1295242587
Locations:
BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

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