Tootfinder

A woman calling out the patriarchal system and rape culture... in 1771 London.
This was a great episode of #WhatsHerName podcast, and Catherine Jemmat's memoir is so old that you can read the full scanned version on the Internet Archive from the New York Library.

THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE Catherine Jemmat — What'shername
After a lifetime of betrayal and abuse as an 18th century sex worker, Catherine Jemmat broke the ultimate social taboo: she wrote the truth about her life. Her “scandalous memoir” helped change the way readers thought about women’s lives, and her second book introduced a radical new idea into English society – that the true ‘perpetrator’ driving women into lives of so-called sin and degradation was, in fact, society itself. Returning guest Miranda Garno Rossa …