Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery
By: Mia Döring
4.14
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
"It became untenable for me to remain silent about a part of my life I had long kept secret. I had …
Want to Read $ 2.99"It comes down to this: if men believed that sex was a mutual activity between two human beings based on equal respect and power, the sex trade would not exist."-Mia Döring, Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery
"They want the woman to be a sexual machine and do everything asked of her without refusal or complaint, but they also want her to fake that she’s not a sexual machine. She must look happy doing it. She can express feelings, but only the male-pleasing ones."-Mia Döring, Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery
"Agreeing to something does not make that thing any less harmful for our bodies or minds. It is psychologically exhausting, damaging and toxic to fake a connection to someone, especially a sexual connection. Not being free to be yourself in such a vulnerable and intimate situation is physically and psychologically exhausting. Being paid to have sex on someone else’s terms is the farthest thing from sexual autonomy that exists."-Mia Döring, Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery
"Re-enacting trauma means putting yourself in similar situations or places to the original trauma, or finding similar people, and to create a new narrative in an attempt, this time, to be in control, to write a new ending, one in which you are in charge, not victimised. The sex trade is the perfect place for the sexually traumatised to try unconsciously to resolve former hurt because an unending number of men want to use your body. This is one of the reasons those who have suffered sexual abuse are so prevalent in the sex trade."-Mia Döring, Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery
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1. Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution
By: Rachel Moran
3.50
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
An astonishingly brave memoir of life in prostitution and its lingering influence on a woman's psyc… read more
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2. Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
By: Gail Dines
3.77
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
Professor Gail Dines has written about and researched the porn industry for over two decades. She a… read more
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3. Regretting Motherhood
By: Orna Donath
4.10
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Women who opt not to be mothers are frequently warned that they will regret their decision later in… read more
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4. Asking For It
By: Louise O'Neill
3.16
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
It's the beginning of the summer in a small town in Ireland. Emma O'Donovan is eighteen years old, … read more
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5. Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
By: Cordelia Fine
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
It's the twenty-first century, and although we tried to rear unisex children--boys who play with do… read more
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6. Smolarz (Igor Brudny, #6)
By: Przemysław Piotrowski
4.03
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
Powraca przerażająca bieszczadzka legenda. W Bieszczadach dochodzi do zaginięcia dwóch turystek.… read more
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7. Close to Home
By: Michael Magee
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more
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8. Nothing Special
By: Nicole Flattery
3.06
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a rundown apartment with her alcoholic mother … read more
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9. Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
By: Hadley Freeman
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass , comes a “riveting” ( The New York Times… read more
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"Life, unfortunately, is not like an ‘80s movie, in which a character has an epiphany, a triumphal rock track plays on the soundtrack, and everyone smiles at one another: roll end credits. If my teena…"-Hadley Freeman, Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
10. Wszystko mam bardziej. Życie w spektrum autyzmu
By: Jacek Hołub
4.10
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
O tym, dlaczego dorośli decydują się na diagnozę, dlaczego autyzm to nie zawsze supermoce, o codzie… read more
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11. Siostry: O nadużyciach w żeńskich klasztorach
By: Monika Białkowska
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Czasem „najprostsza droga do nieba” wiedzie przez piekło „Zdradziły Jezusa i Kościół" – to zwykl… read more
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12. Zły syn
By: Jarek Skurzyński
3.60
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Czy dziecko musi kochać rodzica? Historia matki samotnie wychowującej syna w małej, osiedlowej s… read more
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13. Breakdown
By: Cathy Sweeney
3.81
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in he… read more
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14. Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
By: Kathleen Stock
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an imp… read more
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"I am critical of gender identity theory – but not of trans people, for whom I have friendly sympathy and respect."-Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
"The background assumption seems to be that, paradoxically, by identifying and discussing socially produced inequalities, we further entrench them; whereas if we ignore them, perhaps they will go away."-Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
"A first thing to note, in case it’s unclear, is that I am not arguing against legal protections for trans people against violence, discrimination or coercive surgeries. I enthusiastically support the…"-Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
"And perhaps most awkwardly, they have been left unable properly to explain why, internationally, half the population in a given culture might be disproportionately subject to specific experiences lik…"-Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
15. Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
By: Helen Joyce
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Gender identity ideology is about more than twitter storms and using the right pronouns. In just te… read more
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"Most people are in the dark about what is being demanded by transactivists. They understand the call for ‘trans rights’ to mean compassionate concessions that enable a suffering minority to live full…"-Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
"On the Right, the extremists are white ethno-nationalist majoritarians; on the Left, they are identitarians who see progress as a process of bringing one marginalized group after another in from the …"-Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
"What same-sex marriage, women's franchise and the end of segregation all have in common is that they extend the rights of a privileged group to everyone. And when people hear the phrase 'trans rights…"-Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
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16. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
By: Sly Stone
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses … read more
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17. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief
By: Katriona O'Sullivan
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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18. A Perfect Day to Be Alone
By: Nanae Aoyama
3.12
Format: 160 pages, ebook
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"I feel like maybe I should use up all my sadness now while I'm young. So, I don't end up all miserable when I'm old."-Nanae Aoyama, A Perfect Day to Be Alone
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19. Aisling Ever After
By: Emer McLysaght
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Living in the Big Apple feels like a movie, especially when Aisling finds her ex-boyfriend John on … read more
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20. Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery
By: Mia Döring
4.14
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
"It became untenable for me to remain silent about a part of my life I had long kept secret. I had … read more
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"It comes down to this: if men believed that sex was a mutual activity between two human beings based on equal respect and power, the sex trade would not exist."-Mia Döring, Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery
"They want the woman to be a sexual machine and do everything asked of her without refusal or complaint, but they also want her to fake that she’s not a sexual machine. She must look happy doing it. S…"-Mia Döring, Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery
"Agreeing to something does not make that thing any less harmful for our bodies or minds. It is psychologically exhausting, damaging and toxic to fake a connection to someone, especially a sexual conn…"-Mia Döring, Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery
"Re-enacting trauma means putting yourself in similar situations or places to the original trauma, or finding similar people, and to create a new narrative in an attempt, this time, to be in control, …"-Mia Döring, Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery
21. This Is Not About You: A Menmoir
By: Rosemary Mac Cabe
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
For once, these men are the objects; I am the subject. Me, me, me. Rosemary Mac Cabe was always a s… read more
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22. Belonging: One Woman's Search for Truth and Justice for the Tuam Babies
By: Catherine Corless
4.66
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
When 51-year-old Catherine Corless decided to enrol in an evening course in local history, she had … read more
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23. Reality Check
By: Vicki Notaro
3.64
Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition
Portia Daniels' life is sorted. She has a perfect man (Jason, a hot TV producer from Ireland), a pe… read more
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24. Stany Podzielone Ameryki
By: Łukasz Pawłowski
3.96
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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25. This Is How You Remember It
By: Catherine Prasifka
4.11
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
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26. Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
By: Molly Smith
4.61
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
You hear that selling sex is degrading; you hear that no one would ever choose to do it; you hear t… read more
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"A sex worker who is living precariously or in poverty, who is at risk of criminalization or police violence, or who is being exploited by a manager or lacks negotiating power is not likely to be part…"-Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
"Sex workers are the original feminists. Often seen as merely subject to others' whims, in fact, sex workers have shaped and contributed to social movements across the world. In medieval Europe, broth…"-Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
27. Becoming Molly-Mae: Finding Happiness in an Online/Offline World
By: Molly Hague
3.24
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
The real Molly-Mae, in her own words Self-made businesswoman and influencer Molly-Mae is no strange… read more
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28. Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self
By: Kajsa Ekis Ekman
4.35
Format: 242 pages, ebook
Grounded in the reality of the violence and abuse inherent in prostitution – and profoundly affecte… read more
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29. Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women
By: Leanne McCormick
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The untold stories of generations of Irish women who saw their American dream become a nightmare - … read more
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- ireland
30. The Couples
By: Lauren MacKenzie
3.60
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Eva looked out of the window of the charmingly crumbling guest house and thought she might be sick.… read more
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31. Will I Ever Have Sex Again?
By: Sofie Hagen
4.05
Format: 9 pages, Audible Audio
Comedian Sofie Hagen has not had sex in 3,000 days (and counting). And it turns out, she's not the … read more
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