Youth Who Trade Sex in the U.S.: Intersectionality, Agency, and Vulnerability Contributor(s): Showden, Carisa R. (Author), Majic, Samantha (Author) |
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ISBN: 1439916209 ISBN-13: 9781439916209 Publisher: Temple University Press OUR PRICE: $87.88 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Prostitution & Sex Trade - Social Science | Criminology - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory |
Dewey: 306.745 |
LCCN: 2017052523 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.79 lbs) 248 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: When cases of domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) by predatory men are reported in the media, it is often presented that a young, innocent girl has been abused by bad men with their demand for sex and profit. This narrative has shaped popular understandings of young people in the commercialized sex trades, sparking new policy responses. However, the authors of Youth Who Trade Sex in the U.S. challenge this dominant narrative as incomplete. Carisa Showden and Samantha Majic investigate young people's engagement in the sex trades through an intersectional lens. The authors examine the dominant policy narrative's history and the political circumstances generating its emergence and current form. With this background, Showden and Majic review and analyze research published since 2000 about young people who trade sex since 2000 to develop an intersectional "matrix of agency and vulnerability" designed to improve research, policy, and community interventions that center the needs of these young people. Ultimately, they derive an understanding of the complex reality for most young people who sell or trade sex, and are committed to ending such exploitation. |