Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom by Bernstein, Elizabeth

Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226573779)

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Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom by Bernstein, Elizabeth

Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom

$32.00
Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom by Bernstein, Elizabeth

Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom

$32.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Elizabeth Bernstein
ISBN-10: 022657377X
ISBN-13: 9780226573779
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2019
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d

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By Elizabeth Bernstein
By Elizabeth Bernstein
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Elizabeth Bernstein is professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies and of sociology at Barnard College, Columbia University, and the author of Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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