Prostitution: Where Racism & Sexism Intersect

Authors

Vednita Nelson, Women Hurt in Systems of Prostitution Engaged in Revolt (WHISPER)

Abstract

Black women find themselves in a unique and extremely difficult position in our society. They are forced to deal with the oppression that arises from being Black in a white-supremacist culture and the oppression that arises from being female in a male-supremacist culture. In order to examine the experience of being Black and female, this paper attempts to describe that very difficult, tight space where Black women attempt to survive-that space where racism and sexism intersect.

Recommended Citation

Vednita Nelson, Prostitution: Where Racism & Sexism Intersect, 1 Mich. J. Gender & L. 81 (1993).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjgl/vol1/iss1/6