Sex at the Margins
Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry was published by Zed Books (London) in 2007. Click on the image to order:
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Fallen women, including the one Charles Dickens didn’t save
Tweet Two hundred years ago, women who misbehaved sexually were referred to as fallen from God’s grace. In mid- and late-19th-century paintings, the fallen woman was portrayed in a physically low position: gazing hopelessly up at the sky, kneeling in shame and sometimes being raised up by a kind person, as in this picture by [...]
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Guess a way to guess numbers of trafficking victims and win a big prize!
Tweet The Monty Python team have entered the anti-trafficking field. They must have, as who else would draft an initiative as daft as this one from the United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking? As everyone knows, it’s impossible to know how many people are real trafficked victims (they didn’t register with anyone at the [...]
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Could abolitionists stop mixing up chattel slavery with sex slavery?
Tweet People in the United States who want to lead a new anti-slavery movement should know better than anyone what chattel slavery is: The institution that allows one person to legally buy another and do whatever they want with them. Legally is the keyword: that is, the sale and purchase of human beings is permitted [...]
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Sex at the Margins available as ebook
Tweet I receive many queries about getting Sex at the Margins (Zed Books) as an ebook, so am happy to announce that it is now available through various outlets. Not for the dedicated hardware readers yet (kindle, nook, kobo) but available! The best deal in the US is at Books A Million: ebook $10.32 In [...]
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Kristof and the Rescue Industry: the Soft Side of Imperialism
Tweet During a prolonged stay in New York recently I realised that Nicholas Kristof looms very large to many people, while to me he is only one of many annoying members of the Rescue Industry, albeit an egregious one. In the article I published last week about imperialism for Counterpunch Kristof was the obvious choice [...]
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Gold digging with gold miners: an old tradition
Tweet The only objectionable thing in the story below, which describes one of prostitution’s classic traditions, is the editor’s addition of scare quotes around the word work to describe what the women are doing. He or she slipped in the last paragraph, though, and left the punctuation out. Since selling sex to miners in a [...]
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Changing the mentality of men who buy sex: here’s Madrid
Tweet Male Call was Milton Caniff’s comic strip for soldiers duing WWII. The main character was a woman back home, Miss Lace. Now Mayor of Madrid, Ana Botella has long been a staunch member of the movement to abolish prostitution. Wife of former Prime Minister Aznar (Partido Popular, conservative), she promotes measures that discourage men [...]
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US Trafficking Office wants your help with imperialist anti-trafficking operations
Tweet The US Trafficking in Persons Report has always failed to explain how it gets its information in more than the sketchiest of ways, as I point out in June of every year. For an instrument with so much money and potential interfering impact behind it, the TIP is as untransparent as any CIA operation. [...]
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Clean-cut girls: Something must be wrong if they are selling sex
Tweet Jess Stearn began his 1956 Sisters of the Night with the famous question Why do women become prostitutes? During his research in New York to find out, Stearn was introduced to different types of women who sell sex. Actually they were women who used different methods to find clients and varying ways to describe [...]
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Sex workers and Violence against Women: Utopic Visions or Battle of the Sexes?
Tweet The other day, discussing the recommendation that DNA should be taken from men who buy sex, I ended with a question: how can anyone maintain a utopic vision about gender equality that relies on punishing so many people as criminals? That reminded me I had asked the same question in an article published more [...]