prostitutes

Maria, a girl from a Brazilian village whose heart was broken at a tender age, is led into a career as a prostitute and develops a fascination with sex for its own sake--a view that is challenged when she meets a handsome painter who restores her belief in love.

Gustine, a fifteen-year-old prostitute in nineteenth-century England, agrees to procure the dead bodies of victims of the bubonic plague for surgeon Henry Chiver to use in his anatomy school in exchange for his care of her baby boy, who was born with a remarkable anatomical defect, but her loyalty to the doctor is challenged by his growing greed and his obsession with the child.

Presents Daniel Defoe's eighteenth-century novel about a woman born in Newgate prison who becomes an infamous prostitute and thief, tasting adventure and adversity on both sides of the Atlantic; and includes contextual writings and eleven works of criticism.

Gloria, a young prostitute, makes a pack with widower John Williams to help raise his infant daughter if he would help raise her son; however, a tragic event turns Gloria's life around.

In nineteenth-century London, artist Henry Chester falls in love with the delicate child beauty Effie, and makes her his bride, but Henry soon learns that the woman he wanted Effie to be is very different from the woman she is.

Composite profiles of young prostitutes, based on interviews, telling of how they fall into the life, their degradition, and the difficulty of making a change. Provides historical background and discusses available social services.