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Brokered subjects : sex, trafficking, and the politics of freedom /

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Our shared concern for the victims of sex trafficking represents a rare spot of common ground in contemporary political discourse. Galvanized by impassioned accounts of the abduction and forced labor of women and girls, such normally divergent groups as evangelical Christians, secular feminists, aid...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bernstein, Elizabeth, 1968- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Human trafficking.
Prostitution.
Human trafficking > Prevention.
Human trafficking > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Human trafficking > Political aspects > United States.
Humanitarianism > United States.
Humanitarianism > Political aspects.
Feminist theory.
Feminism > Political aspects.
Neoliberalism > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.
Table of Contents:
  • Tracing the "traffic in women"
  • The sexual politics of carceral feminism
  • Seek justice!
  • The travels of trafficking / with Elena Shih
  • Redemptive capitalism and sexual investability
  • Imagining freedom.