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OverviewAn illuminating follow-up to Kathleen Barry's powerful landmark book, Female Sexual Slavery, that assesses the landscape of abuse prostitution 15 years later In 1979, Kathleen Barry's landmark book, Female Sexual Slavery, pulled back the curtain on a world of abuse prostitution that shocked the world. Documenting in devastating detail the lives of street prostitutes and the international traffic in women, Barry's work was called ""powerful and compassionate"" by Adrienne Rich and ""a courageous and crusading book that should be read everywhere"" by Gloria Steinem. The Los Angeles Times found it ""a powerful work filled with disbelief, outrage, and documentation...sexual bondage shackles women as much today as it has for centuries."" In The Prostitution of Sexuality, Barry assesses where we are 15 years later, how far we've come and, more importantly, how far we have still to go. Shifting her focus from the sexuality of prostitution to the prostitution of sexuality, Barry exposes the practice of teenage sexual exploitation and the flourishing Asian sex tour industry, emphasizing the world-wide role of the expanding multi-billion dollar pornography industry. The work identifies the global conditions of sexual exploitation, from sex industrialization in developing countries to the normalization of prostitution in the West. The Prostitution of Sexuality considers sexual exploitation a political condition and thus the foundation of women's subordination and the base from which discrimination against women is constructed and enacted. Breaking new ground, Barry convincingly argues for the need to integrate the struggle against sexual exploitation in prostitution into broader feminist struggles and to place it, as one of several connected issues, in the forefront of the feminist agenda. Barry concludes the book with a sampling of strategies—international, regional, local, and personal--that feminist activists have employed successfully since the early 1980s, highlighting new international legal strategies for human rights resulting from her work. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kathleen BarryPublisher: New York University Press Imprint: New York University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.540kg ISBN: 9780814712771ISBN 10: 0814712770 Pages: 390 Publication Date: 01 July 1996 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews<p> Sociologists will appreciate [C t 's] attempt at showing the social and structural roots of and consequences for unbridled consumerism. - Contemporary Sociology , <p> This is a brave and brilliant book -- and constitutes a quantum leap forward for global feminist theory. -Robin Morgan, This is a brave and brilliant book - and constitutes a quantum leap forward for global feminist theory. -Robin Morgan <p> This is a brave and brilliant book -- and constitutes a quantum leap forward for global feminist theory. Author InformationKathleen Barry, feminist, activist, and sociologist, is Professor Emerita at Penn State University. Author of six books, she launched her global feminist activism with her first book, Female Sexual Slavery. She conducts feminist workshops on consciousness-raising and builds feminist activism against sexual exploitation and assault. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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