An illuminating follow-up to Kathleen Barry's powerful landmark
book, Female Sexual Slavery, that assesses the landscape of abuse
prostitution 15 years later In 1979, Kathleen Barry's landmark
book, Female Sexual Slavery, pulled back the curtain on a world of
abuse prostitution that shocked the world. Documenting in
devastating detail the lives of street prostitutes and the
international traffic in women, Barry's work was called powerful
and compassionate by Adrienne Rich and a courageous and crusading
book that should be read everywhere by Gloria Steinem. The Los
Angeles Times found it a powerful work filled with disbelief,
outrage, and documentation...sexual bondage shackles women as much
today as it has for centuries. In The Prostitution of Sexuality,
Barry assesses where we are 15 years later, how far we've come and,
more importantly, how far we have still to go. Shifting her focus
from the sexuality of prostitution to the prostitution of
sexuality, Barry exposes the practice of teenage sexual
exploitation and the flourishing Asian sex tour industry,
emphasizing the world-wide role of the expanding multi-billion
dollar pornography industry. The work identifies the global
conditions of sexual exploitation, from sex industrialization in
developing countries to the normalization of prostitution in the
West. The Prostitution of Sexuality considers sexual exploitation a
political condition and thus the foundation of women's
subordination and the base from which discrimination against women
is constructed and enacted. Breaking new ground, Barry convincingly
argues for the need to integrate the struggle against sexual
exploitation in prostitution into broader feminist struggles and to
place it, as one of several connected issues, in the forefront of
the feminist agenda. Barry concludes the book with a sampling of
strategies-international, regional, local, and personal--that
feminist activists have employed successfully since the early
1980s, highlighting new international legal strategies for human
rights resulting from her work.
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