Sex Slaves, the Traficking Of Women In Asia

Zusatztext SEX SLAVES highlights! necessarily! the dark side! the hypocrisy and the exploitation- often of children and teenagers- of the trade. Informationen zum Autor Louise Brown is Lecturer in Asian Studies and Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Research in the Humanities at the University of Birmingham. Klappentext The Asian sex trade is often assumed to cater predominantly to foreigners. SEX SLAVES turns that belief on its head to show that while western sex tourists have played a vital part in the growth of the industry, the primary customers of Asia's indentured sex workers and of its child prostitutes are overwhelmingly Asian men. Here are the voices of some of the world's most silent and abused women - women who have been forced into prostitution by the men they trust. This is their story: about the journey from home to captivity; the horrors of 'seasoning' for prostitution; and the hidden life within the brothel. *A shocking expose of prostitution and the trafficking of women in Asia that goes way beyond the sex tourism we hear about *A sustained assault on the Asian values of the Tiger Economies Zusammenfassung The Asian sex trade is often assumed to cater predominantly to foreigners. SEX SLAVES turns that belief on its head to show that while western sex tourists have played a vital part in the growth of the industry! the primary customers of Asia's indentured sex workers and of its child prostitutes are overwhelmingly Asian men. Here are the voices of some of the world's most silent and abused women - women who have been forced into prostitution by the men they trust. This is their story: about the journey from home to captivity; the horrors of 'seasoning' for prostitution; and the hidden life within the brothel. Inhaltsverzeichnis The market; the commodity; the agents; seasoning; the customers; the management; the law; life and death; the shame. ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Louise Brown, Brown Louise
• Verlag: Virago Press Ltd
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 07.06.2001
• EAN: 9781860499036
• ISBN: 978-1-86049-903-6
• Seiten: 288
• Abmessung: 133 mm x 199 mm x 20 mm
• Serie: Virago Paperbacks
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geisteswissenschaften allgemein; Sachbuch > Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft > Politik; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; Prostitution, Sextourismus, Frauenhandel, Südostasien : Gesellschaft, Cultural Studies, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Ethical Issues: Prostitution & Sex Industry, Ethical issues and debates, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality