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Author Lloyd, Rachel, 1975-

Title Girls like us : fighting for a world where girls are not for sale : a memoir / Rachel Lloyd.

Imprint New York : HarperPerennial, 2012.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  362.88 L778Bl 2012    ---  Available
1 copy being processed for Axe Acquisitions Order.
Edition 1st Harper Perennial ed.
Description 227 pages ; 21 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-277).
Contents Learning -- Risk -- Family -- Recruitment -- Pimps -- Johns -- Victims -- Cops -- Staying -- Leaving -- Relapse -- Unlearning -- Stigma -- Healing -- Leadership -- Beginnings.
Summary During her teens, Rachel Lloyd ended up a victim of commercial sexual exploitation. With time, through incredible resilience, and with the help of a local church community, she finally broke free of her pimp and her past and devoted herself to helping other young girls escape "the life." In "Girls Like Us," Lloyd reveals the dark world of commercial sex trafficking in cinematic detail and tells the story of her nonprofit organization: GEMS (Girls Educational and Mentoring Services). She shares the stories of the girls whose lives GEMS has helped -- small victories that have healed her wounds and made her whole.
Subject Lloyd, Rachel, 1975-
Girls Educational & Mentoring Services.
Women political activists -- United States -- Biography.
Political activists -- United States -- Biography.
Child prostitution -- United States.
Child trafficking.
Child prostitutes -- Civil rights.
Sexually abused children -- Civil rights.
Girls -- Civil rights -- United States.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780061582066 (pbk.)
0061582069 (pbk.)

 
    
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