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2 results foundAuthor: Lobasz, Jennifer Kathleen Title: Victims, Villains, and the Virtuous: Constructing the Problems of “Human Trafficking” Summary: Over the past two decades, human trafficking has come to be seen as a growing threat, and transnational advocacy networks opposed to human trafficking have succeeded in establishing trafficking as a pressing political problem. The meaning of human trafficking, however, remains an object of significant—and heated—contestation among transnational actors with opposing perspectives on prostitution, the appropriate balance between law enforcement and human rights protection, and migration. The outcomes of disputes over meaning are highly significant. Anti-trafficking discourses establish regimes of knowledge that set boundaries for how scholars, activists, legislators, and citizens conceive of human trafficking—they establish what trafficking is and who counts as trafficked, and create narratives that explain how trafficking has become a problem and what should be done to fix it. In this dissertation I conduct a genealogical discourse analysis of anti-trafficking advocacy, policy, and scholarship in the United States from the late 1970s to 2000, looking in particular at feminist and religious abolitionist advocacy networks, and the role they play in the creation of the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. I argue that “human trafficking” is better understood as a contested concept rather than as an objectively given problem. The meaning of trafficking is constructed rather than inherent, and inseparable from the political context through which it is produced. Details: Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota, 2012. 270p. Source: Internet Resource: Dissertation: Accessed November 20, 2012 at: http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/131822/1/Lobasz_umn_0130E_12756.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United States URL: http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/131822/1/Lobasz_umn_0130E_12756.pdf Shelf Number: 126941 Keywords: FeminismForced LaborHuman RightsHuman TraffickingProstitutionSexual Exploitation |
Author: Gardner, John Title: The Opposite of Rape Summary: Nicola Lacey once lamented that a theoretical focus on rape, with its 'individualised notion of consent', tends to come 'at the expense of the development of a positive conception of what kinds of sexual relationships matter to personhood.' In this essay, building on an earlier essay written with Stephen Shute, I attempt to do some more detailed work on the 'positive conception' of sex with which rape is to be contrasted. I interrogate the 'individualised notion of consent' relevant to rape to see whether it has a proper place in the contrasting 'positive conception'. I conclude that it does not, and suggest that treating it as part of the relevant 'positive conception' may have pernicious consequences. When an 'individualised notion of consent' is too closely associated with good sex, hard-won feminist policy advances (giving women more control over their sex lives) tend to reinforce an anti-feminist ideology (representing women as passive in the sex itself). Details: Oxford, UK: University of Oxford, School of Law, 2016. 34p. Source: Internet Resource: Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 6/2016: Accessed August 5, 2017 at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2727269 Year: 2016 Country: United Kingdom URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2727269 Shelf Number: 146734 Keywords: FeminismRape Sexual Violence |