Labour Migration and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia by Michele Ford

Book Description: Since the signing of the UN Trafficking Protocol, anti-trafficking laws, policies and other initiatives have been implemented at the local, national and regional levels. These activities have received little scholarly attention. This volume aims to begin to fill this gap by documenting the micro-processes through which an anti-trafficking framework has been translated, implemented … Read more

Sex-Selective Abortion in India by Mary Elizabeth Shepherd

Book Description: Does sex-selective abortion have an impact on gender differentials in child morbidity and mortality in India? If prenatal discrimination against girls has been substituting for postnatal discrimination, then eliminating sex-selective abortion may lead to an increase in excess female infant and child mortality. In this careful and thorough study that employs data from … Read more

Selling Women by Amy Stanley

Book Description: This book traces the social history of early modern Japan’s sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, it describes how the work of “selling women” transformed communities across the archipelago. By focusing on the … Read more

Comfort Women Speak by Sangmie Choi Schellstede

Book Description: During World War II, an estimated 200,000 girls and young women were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese imperial military, which was authorized by the highest levels of Japan’s wartime government. This system resulted in the largest, most methodical and most deadly mass rape of women in recorded history. Japan’s Kem pei … Read more

Sex and the Floating World by Timon Screech

Book Description: During the Edo period in eighteenth-century Japan, erotic paintings and prints known today as shunga were popular among both men and women. Yet, prior to Tim Screech’s definitive study, Sex and the Floating World, no one had attempted to situate these overtly sexual images within the contexts of the sexual, gender, or class … Read more

Think Global Fear Local by David Richard Leheny

Book Description: In 1999, responding to international concerns about the sexual exploitation of children, the Japanese Diet voted unanimously to ban child prostitution and child pornography. Two years later, in the wake of 9/11, Junichiro Koizumi’s cabinet radically shifted government counterterrorism policy toward new military solutions, and away from an earlier emphasis on law enforcement. … Read more

Sexual Violence and the Law in Japan by Catherine Burns

Book Description: This book provides a detailed examination of judicial decision-making in Japanese cases involving sexual violence. It describes the culture of ‘eroticised violence’ in Japan, which sees the feminine body as culpable and the legal system which encourages homogeneity and conformity in decision-making and shows how the legal constraints confronting women claiming sexual assaults … Read more

Trafficking And Prostitution Reconsidered by Kamala Kempadoo

Book Description: Trafficking and prostitution are widely believed to be synonymous, and to be leading international crimes. This collection argues against such sensationalism and advances carefully considered and grounded alternatives for understanding transnational migrations, forced labor, sex work, and livelihood strategies under new forms of globalization. From their long-term engagements as anti-trafficking advocates, the authors … Read more

Casting Stones by Rita Nakashima Brock

Book Description: A cross-cultural analysis by two leading feminist theoloians of the sex industry, this book concentrates on the role of religion in shaping and sustaining related cultural values and the roles of militarism and business in the sexual exploitation of women, men, and children.

Beerbars Bargirls & Bekloppte – Sextourismus in Thailand by Klaus Kubici

Book Description: Berichte und Reportagen von unterwegs und vom ganz normalen Wahnsinn in den Touristenhochburgen Thailands.