Melissa Farley

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Melissa Farley, PhD (born 1942) is a radical feminist research psychologist who studies the effects of prostitution, pornography, and trafficking on those engaged in those industries.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Selected Bibliography 2.1 Articles 2.1.1 Prostitution, Pornography & Sex Trafficking 2.1.2 Adverse Health Effects of Violence Against Women 3 External links 4 See also

[edit] Biography

Farley received her doctorate in 1973 from the University of Iowa College of Education[1]. She has practiced as a psychologist for 40 years.

Since 1993, Farley has researched prostitution and trafficking in 10 countries. Farley is currently director of Prostitution Research and Education [2], a San Francisco nonprofit organization.

[edit] Selected Bibliography

[edit] Articles

[edit] Prostitution, Pornography & Sex Trafficking

• “Prostitution, Trafficking, and Cultural Amnesia: What We Must Not Know in Order To Keep the Business of Sexual Exploitation Running Smoothly” by Melissa Farley 2006 Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 18:109-144.
• “Prostitution and Trafficking in 9 Countries: Update on Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder” by Melissa Farley, Ann Cotton., Jacqueline Lynne, Sybile Zumbeck, Frida Spiwak, Maria E. Reyes, Dinorah Alvarez, Ufuk Sezgin 2003 Journal of Trauma Practice 2 (3/4): 33-74.
• “Prostitution and Trafficking in Asia” by Melissa Farley and Sungjean Seo 2006 Harvard Asia Pacific Review Volume 8 Number 2 pages 9-12.
• “Prostitution in Vancouver: Violence and the Colonization of First Nations Women” by Melissa Farley, Jacqueline Lynne, and Ann Cotton. 2005 Transcultural Psychiatry 42: 242-271.
• “‘Bad for the Body, Bad for the Heart:’ Prostitution Harms Women Even If Legalized or Decriminalized” by Melissa Farley 2004 Violence Against Women 10: 1087-1125.
• "Prostitution Harms Women Even if Indoors: Reply to Weitzer" by Melissa Farley, Violence Against Women 1(7): 971–977, July 2005.
• “Prostitution of Indigenous Women: Sex Inequality and the Colonization of Canada’s First Nations Women” by Melissa Farley and Jacqueline Lynne 2005 Fourth World Journal Vol. 6 No. 1, pp 1-29.
• “Who are Johns?” by Melissa Farley 2004 Conference Report: Demand Dynamics, the Forces of Demand in Global Sex Trafficking. October 18, 2003. Captive Daughters and International Human Rights Law Institute of DePaul University College of Law.
• “Prostitution and Trafficking are Migrant Health Concerns” by Melissa Farley and Marisa B. Ugarte 2003 Streamline: Migrant Clinicians’ Network 1-3. PO Box 164285 Austin, TX 78716.

[edit] Adverse Health Effects of Violence Against Women

• “Trauma History and Relapse Probability among Patients Seeking Substance Abuse Treatment “ by Melissa Farley, Jacqueline M. Golding, George Young, Marie Mulligan, and Jerome R. Minkoff (2004) Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment 27:161-167.
• “Is a History of Trauma Associated with a Reduced Likelihood of Cervical Cancer Screening?” by Melissa Farley, Jerome R. Minkoff, and Jacqueline M. Golding 2002 Journal of Family Practice 51 (10):827-831.
• “Physical symptoms, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Healthcare Utilization of Women with and without Childhood Physical and Sexual Abuse” by Melissa Farley and Beatrice Patsalides 2001 Psychological Reports 89:595-606.
• “Breast Cancer Screening and Trauma History“ by Melissa Farley, Jerome R. Minkoff, and Howard Barkan 2001 Women & Health 34 (2): 15-27.
• “Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Dissociation, and Pathological Tension-Reducing Behaviors” by Melissa Farley and Howard Barkan 1997 Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Vol. 66:133-140.
• “Physical Symptoms, Somatization, and Dissociation in Adult Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Assault” by Melissa Farley and Joanne Keaney 1997 Women and Health, Vol. 25 (3): 33-45.
• “Development of a scale to measure physical symptoms in adults who report childhood trauma: a pilot study” by Melissa Farley and Joanne Keaney 1994 Family Violence and Sexual Assault Bulletin, 10 (1-2): 23-27.

[edit] External links

• Prostitution Research and Education
• Melissa Farley "Letter to the Editor", Changing Men
• The Demand for Prostitution
• Prostitution and sex trafficking as severe forms of violence against women
• “Flawed Theory and Method in Studies of Prostitution” by Ronald Weitzer, Violence Against Women 1(7): 934–949, July 2005.

[edit] See also

• Anti-pornography movement
• Radical feminist