| Fighting the Us Youth Sex Trade: Gender, Race, and Politics Contributor(s): Baker, Carrie N. (Author) |
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ISBN: 131664961X ISBN-13: 9781316649619 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $35.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Prostitution & Sex Trade - Social Science | Children's Studies - Social Science | Criminology |
| Dewey: 306.745 |
| LCCN: 2018012048 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6.42" W x 9" (0.85 lbs) 270 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1970's - Chronological Period - 1980's - Chronological Period - 1990's - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Campaigns against prostitution of young people in the United States have surged and ebbed multiple times over the last fifty years. Fighting the US Youth Sex Trade: Gender, Race, and Politics examines how politically and ideologically diverse activists joined together to change perceptions and public policies on youth involvement in the sex trade over time, reframing 'juvenile prostitution' of the 1970s as 'commercial sexual exploitation of children' in the 1990s, and then as 'domestic minor sex trafficking' in the 2000s. Based on organizational archives and interviews with activists, Baker shows that these campaigns were fundamentally shaped by the politics of gender, race and class, and global anti-trafficking campaigns. The author argues that the very frames that have made these movements so successful in achieving new laws and programs for youth have limited their ability to achieve systematic reforms that could decrease youth vulnerability to involvement in the sex trade. |
Contributor Bio(s): Baker, Carrie N.: - Carrie N. Baker, J.D., Ph.D., is a Professor and Director of the Program for the Study of Women and Gender Baker at Smith College, Massachusetts. Baker's primary areas of research are women's legal history, gender and public policy, and women's social movements. Her first book The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment (Cambridge, 2008) won the National Women's Studies Association 2008 Sara A. Whaley book prize. Baker has published in many leading journals, including Violence Against Women, Women in Politics, and The Journal of Women's History. Baker also writes for Ms. magazine and is co-chair of the Ms. Committee of Scholars. |