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Brokered Subjects : Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom
Title
Brokered Subjects : Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom / Elizabeth Bernstein.
ISBN
9780226573809
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2019]
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
1 online resource (304 p.) : 31 halftones
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
In English.
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Summary
Brokered Subjects digs deep into the accepted narratives of sex trafficking to reveal the troubling assumptions that have shaped both right- and left-wing agendas around sexual violence. Drawing on years of in-depth fieldwork, Elizabeth Bernstein sheds light not only on trafficking but also on the broader structures that meld the ostensible pursuit of liberation with contemporary techniques of power. Rather than any meaningful commitment to the safety of sex workers, Bernstein argues, what lies behind our current vision of trafficking victims is a transnational mix of putatively humanitarian militaristic interventions, feel-good capitalism, and what she terms carceral feminism: a feminism compatible with police batons.
Variant and related titles
De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2018.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 09, 2022
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Tracing the "Traffic in Women"
2 The Sexual Politics of Carceral Feminism
3 Seek Justice™
4 The Travels of Trafficking
5 Redemptive Capitalism and Sexual Investability
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