Trafficking Womens Human Rights by Julietta Hua (English) Paperback Book

Description: Trafficking Womens Human Rights by Julietta Hua How images of sex trafficking produce notions of race, sex, and citizenship FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The history of human beings bought and sold, forced into lives of abject servitude or sexual slavery, is a story as old as civilization and yet still of global concern today. How this story is told, Julietta Hua argues, says much about our cultural beliefs. Through a critical inquiry into representations of human trafficking, she reveals the political, social, and cultural strains underlying our current preoccupation with this issue and the difficulty of framing human rights in universal terms.In Trafficking Womens Human Rights, Hua maps the ways in which government, media, and scholarship have described sex trafficking for U.S. consumption. As her investigation takes us from laws like the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act to political speeches and literary and media images, it uncovers dark assumptions about race, difference, and the United States place in the world expressed-and often promoted-by such images. The framing itself, exploiting dichotomies of victim/agent, rescued/rescuer, trafficked/smuggled, illustrates the limits of universalism in addressing human rights.Uniquely broad in scope, this work considers the laws of human trafficking in conjunction with popular culture. In doing so, it constructively draws attention to the ways in which notions of racialized sexualities form our ideas about national belonging, global citizenship, and, ultimately, human rights. Author Biography Julietta Hua is assistant professor of women and gender studies at San Francisco State University. Table of Contents ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Legal Stakes of Human Trafficking1. Universalism and the Conceptual Limits to Human Rights2. Speaking Subjects, Classifying Consent: Narrating Sexual Violence and Morality through Law3. Front Page News: Writing Stories of Victimization and Rescue4. Seeing Race and Sexuality: Origin Stories and Public Images of Trafficking5. Refiguring Slavery: Constructing the United States as a Racial ExceptionConclusion: Considering the Transnational in Feminist ActionsNotesIndex Review "Julietta Hua provides a fresh, vital account of the fundamental pitfalls of human rights policy. This is an engaging and provocative book that frames important questions in productive and generative ways. It is a beautiful example of how sophisticated, interdisciplinary analysis can push our thinking and our actions towards true social justice. And, as this book attests, it is never easy." —Lisa Sun-Hee Park, author of Consuming Citizenship: Children of Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurs Long Description The history of human beings bought and sold, forced into lives of abject servitude or sexual slavery, is a story as old as civilization and yet still of global concern today. How this story is told, Julietta Hua argues, says much about our cultural beliefs. Through a critical inquiry into representations of human trafficking, she reveals the political, social, and cultural strains underlying our current preoccupation with this issue and the difficulty of framing human rights in universal terms. In Trafficking Womens Human Rights , Hua maps the ways in which government, media, and scholarship have described sex trafficking for U.S. consumption. As her investigation takes us from laws like the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act to political speeches and literary and media images, it uncovers dark assumptions about race, difference, and the United States place in the world expressed--and often promoted--by such images. The framing itself, exploiting dichotomies of victim/agent, rescued/rescuer, trafficked/smuggled, illustrates the limits of universalism in addressing human rights. Uniquely broad in scope, this work considers the laws of human trafficking in conjunction with popular culture. In doing so, it constructively draws attention to the ways in which notions of racialized sexualities form our ideas about national belonging, global citizenship, and, ultimately, human rights. Review Quote "Julietta Hua provides a fresh, vital account of the fundamental pitfalls of human rights policy. This is an engaging and provocative book that frames important questions in productive and generative ways. It is a beautiful example of how sophisticated, interdisciplinary analysis can push our thinking and our actions towards true social justice. And, as this book attests, it is never easy." -Lisa Sun-Hee Park, author of Consuming Citizenship: Children of Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurs Details ISBN0816675619 Author Julietta Hua Short Title TRAFFICKING WOMENS HUMAN RIGHT Publisher University of Minnesota Press Language English ISBN-10 0816675619 ISBN-13 9780816675616 Media Book Format Paperback Illustrations Yes Year 2011 Imprint University of Minnesota Press Place of Publication Minnesota Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2011-08-01 UK Release Date 2011-08-01 NZ Release Date 2011-08-01 US Release Date 2011-08-01 Pages 216 Alternative 9780816675609 DEWEY 323.32949 Audience General AU Release Date 2011-09-27 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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