“For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.”

—  Melissa Farley

"Prostitution in Vancouver: Violence and the Colonization of First Nations Women" in Transcultural Psychiatry 42 (2005), p. 242 - 271; co-written with J Lynne and A Cotton

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