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Trafficking Women's Human Rights /

The history of human beings bought and sold, forced into lives of abject servitude or sexual slavery, is a story as old as civilization and yet still of global concern today. How this story is told, Julietta Hua argues, says much about our cultural beliefs. Through a critical inquiry into representa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hua, Julietta (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: the legal stakes of human trafficking
  • Universalism and the conceptual limits to human rights
  • Speaking subjects, classifying consent: narrating sexual violence and morality through law
  • Front page news: writing stories of victimization and rescue
  • Seeing race and sexuality: origin stories and public images of trafficking
  • Refiguring slavery: constructing the United States as a racial exception
  • Conclusion: considering the transnational in feminist actions.