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Author Brock, Rita Nakashima.

Title Casting stones : prostitution and liberation in Asia and the United States / Rita Nakashima Brock and Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite
Published Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [1996]
©1996

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Description xv, 373 pages : 1 map ; 23 cm
Contents Introduction: The Loathsome Thing -- 1. Sex and the Female Body -- 2. Shooting for Fun and Seeking Salvation -- 3. If Women Counted: The Economics of the Sex Industry -- 4. Prostitution and the Law -- 5. Power and Prostitution: The Social/Psychological Dynamics of the Sex Industry -- 6. Tricks, Trauma, and Terror: The Psychological Impacts of Prostitution -- 7. Jokes, Lies, and Stereotypes: Introduction to a Liberation Analysis of Prostitution -- 8. Lying in the Beds We Do Not Make: Sin, Karma, and the Sex Industry -- 9. Movements of Grace and Compassion -- 10. Strategies for Change and Solidarity: What Are We to Do? -- Appendix. Men in Prostitution
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-364) and index
Subject Feminist theology.
Liberation theology.
Patriarchy.
Prostitution -- Religious aspects.
Prostitution -- Asia.
Prostitution -- United States.
Author Thistlethwaite, Susan Brooks, 1948-
LC no. 96018515
ISBN 0800629795 (alk. paper)