A blistering, clear-eyed takedown of the early 20th-century white-slave panic, Emma Goldman's The Traffic in Women exposes the real engines behind prostitution: poverty wages, industrial exploitation, sexual ignorance, and a hypocritical double standard.
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A blistering, clear-eyed takedown of the early 20th-century white-slave panic, Emma Goldman's The Traffic in Women exposes the real engines behind prostitution: poverty wages, industrial exploitation, sexual ignorance, and a hypocritical double standard. With fearless logic and biting wit, Goldman indicts moral crusaders, police graft, and church-sanctioned prudery, arguing that suppression and scandal only drive the sex trade deeper and make it more dangerous.
Drawing on contemporary studies and on-the-ground observation, she shows how capitalism commodifies women, how marriage and respectability can mirror the very transactions they condemn, and why humane treatment and honest sex education—not raids and new laws—offer the only path to change.
Ashley Pomeroy delivers a lucid, engaged performance that lets Goldman's rhetoric crackle while keeping the argument crystal clear. The result is a compact, provocative listen that still feels startlingly current—essential for listeners interested in feminism, labor history, criminal justice, and the roots of sex work policy.
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Details
Length
About 1 hour
Narration
Solo narrator
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Released
November 2026
Publisher
Anthony Pica Productions, LLC
Language
English
Questions
Who narrates The Traffic in Women audiobook?
This edition of The Traffic in Women by Emma Goldman is narrated by Ashley Pomeroy.
How long is The Traffic in Women audiobook?
About 1 hour, unabridged, so you hear the complete text.
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