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Trafficking Women’s Human Rights

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Description for Trafficking Women’s Human Rights Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 5 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 242.

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 representations of human trafficking, she reveals the political, social, and cultural strains underlying our current preoccupation with this issue and the difficulty of framing human rights in universal terms.

In Trafficking Women’s Human Rights, Hua maps the ways in which government, media, and scholarship have described sex trafficking for U.S. consumption. ... Read more

Uniquely broad in scope, this work considers the laws of human trafficking in conjunction with popular culture. In doing so, it constructively draws attention to the ways in which notions of racialized sexualities form our ideas about national belonging, global citizenship, and, ultimately, human rights.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816675616
SKU
V9780816675616
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Julietta Hua
Julietta Hua is assistant professor of women and gender studies at San Francisco State University.

Reviews for Trafficking Women’s Human Rights
"Julietta Hua provides a fresh, vital account of the fundamental pitfalls of human rights policy. This is an engaging and provocative book that frames important questions in productive and generative ways. It is a beautiful example of how sophisticated, interdisciplinary analysis can push our thinking and our actions towards true social justice. And, as this book attests, it is never ... Read more

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