Trafficking Women's Human Rights /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hua, Julietta (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women's rights.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
Human trafficking.
Human rights.
Feminism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
feminism.
Feminisme.
Femmes > Droits.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Traite des êtres humains.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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