{"product_id":"girl-undressed-isbn-9780143115656","title":"Girl, Undressed","description":"\u003cb\u003eA young British woman-broke and out of luck-does battle with Manhattan's underworld of dancers, drugs, and the sex industry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ruth Fowler is a twenty-five-year-old Brit with a Cambridge degree and a middle-class background who arrives in New York City with dreams of becoming a journalist. But getting a work visa in post-9\/11 America proves to be tricky. It doesn't take long for funds and incentive to run out-sending Fowler to the heart of Manhattan's dark underbelly of strip clubs and the sex trade, where as her alter ego \"Mimi\" she works as a dancer for more than two years. Both raw and shocking, \u003ci\u003eGirl, Undressed\u003c\/i\u003e tells the harrowing story of her descent into darkness, the young and wealthy Eton-educated Englishman with whom she perilously falls in love, and her revelatory journey back to herself.\" Excellent . . . Fowler's excoriating narrative quite effectively undermines perceptions of sex work as a viable form of postmodern female empowerment.\" \u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \" Eyebrow-raising revelations abound in this sharp, racy, and relentlessly candid tale.\"\u003cbr\u003e -\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e (starred)Ruth Fowler was raised in North Wales and graduated from Cambridge University. Under different pseudonyms she has written for various publications including \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian, The Observer, The Village Voice \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWired\u003c\/i\u003e. As the strip club dancer “Mimi” she was the subject of a feature article in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304357220581,"sku":"NP9780143115656","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143115656.jpg?v=1767728152","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/girl-undressed-isbn-9780143115656","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}