Callgirl Book

Jeannette Angell was born in France, received the French baccalaureat A and a bachelor's degree from the Universite Catholique de L'ouest. She came to the United States at age 21, where she earned four additional degrees, including a bachelor's in history from Fitchburg State, a Master of Divinity from Yale and a doctorate in anthropology from Boston University, following which she explored a career in teaching. She lectured and gave courses and workshops in sociology, history, religion, and anthropology at some of the most prestigious universities in American and England, including Harvard, M.I.T., and the London School of Economics. When she was 34, a live-in boyfriend vanished, wiping out her savings account and leaving her in a precarious financial situation. Coming across an advertisement seeking women to work as escorts, she thought this might offer a way out of penury. Answering the ad led her to a dual career for three years: a college lecturer by day and a callgirl by night. This book is her story of those years, written largely because of the misconceptions Jeannette has observed about the profession, and because she was touched by - and wanted to give something back to - the many women she met in that world who are invisible to the rest of us.