Someday Mija, You'll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman
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Someday Mija, You'll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman

A Memoir

  1. 239 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Someday Mija, You'll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman

A Memoir

About this book

“Someday Mija, You’ll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman is a memoir that turns time on its head, circling through terror and joy with eloquence and becoming its own sacrament of resistance.” —Foreword Reviews, 5-star review

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.

Information

Publisher
She Writes Press
Year
2022
Topic
Social Sciences
eBook ISBN
9781647421038
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Prologue: Dishes and Dolls
  6. Chapter 1. Funerals
  7. Chapter 2. The Dead Babies
  8. Chapter 3. Chicken Fried Rice
  9. Chapter 4. The Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman
  10. Chapter 5. Uncle Jerry
  11. Chapter 6. Wonder Bread
  12. Chapter 7. Canned Fish
  13. Chapter 8. That’s How You Clean a Floor
  14. Chapter 9. Dr. Ross’ Dog Food
  15. Chapter 10. Relics
  16. Chapter 11. Canasta
  17. Chapter 12. Gorditas and Orange Peel
  18. Chapter 13. Saint Christopher
  19. Chapter 14. Eggs, Tortillas, and Refried Beans
  20. Chapter 15. I Was Going to Tell You
  21. Chapter 16. The Ring
  22. Chapter 17. Olga’s Shop
  23. Chapter 18. La Medalla
  24. Chapter 19. Don Pedro
  25. Chapter 20. The Road Runner
  26. Chapter 21. Sandy
  27. Chapter 22. Never Run After a Bus
  28. Chapter 23. Marmalade
  29. Chapter 24. Coffee
  30. Chapter 25. Saint Mary in Blue Ink
  31. Chapter 26. Hasta La Victoria Siempre
  32. Chapter 27. Whither the Troll? An Organizer’s Tale
  33. Chapter 28. It Starts Out Simple Enough
  34. Chapter 29. Ain’t Doin’ It
  35. Chapter 30. You Gotta Keep the Devil in the Hole
  36. Afterword
  37. Acknowledgments
  38. About the Author
  39. Selected Titles from She Writes Press

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