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The law fails women, not because the criminal legal system is broken, but because it was not designed for us. This untold history of women's rights reveals that women's freedom has only ever been won by our willingness to work outside the law. Telling an alternative history of women's rights-from the 1870s to the present A Woman Is Against the Law offers the story of how a movement concerned with the emancipation of women has also repeatedly done the opposite: winning rights and recognition for some women at the expense of the rest. We encounter unexpected connections, like the ones...

Recent years have seen a panic over "online red-light districts," which supposedly seduce vulnerable young women into a life of degradation, and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's live tweeting of a Cambodian brothel raid. But rarely do these fearful, salacious dispatches come from sex workers themselves, and rarely do they deviate from the position that sex workers must be rescued from their condition, and the industry simply abolished -- a position common among feminists and conservatives alike.

In Playing the Whore, journalist Melissa Gira Grant turns these pieties on...