Brokered Subjects
Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2019
304 pages
978-0-226-57380-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Tracing the "Traffic in Women"
- 2. The Sexual Politics of Carceral Feminism
- 3. Seek JusticeT
- 4. The Travels of Trafficking with Elena Shih
- 5. Redemptive Capitalism and Sexual Investability
- 6. Imagining Freedom
- Afterword
- Notes
- References
- Index
