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The politics of trafficking : the first international movement to combat the sexual exploitation of women
- Author
- Limoncelli, Stephanie A.
- Title
- The politics of trafficking : the first international movement to combat the sexual exploitation of women / Stephanie A. Limoncelli.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010.
- Description
- xii, 217 p. ; 24 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-207) and index.
- Contents
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- The internationalization of prostitution and emergence of the traffic
- Constructing the traffic as an international social problem
- Reforming regulation and nationalizing prostitution
- International Abolitionist Federation reformers and the Dutch movement
- International Bureau reformers and the French movement
- Italy's state-driven movement
- The politics of trafficking.
- Summary
- Provides a historical, ethnographic account of the first movement to combat trafficking in women and girls for prostitution, initiated at an international congress in 1899, offering insights into gender and sexuality in global politics.
- Kinsey subjects
- Proxenetism--Europe. Prostitution--Europe. Women--History--Europe. Legal aspects of prostitution--Europe.
- ISBN
- 9780804762946 (cloth : alk. paper) 0804762945 (cloth : alk. paper)