| Description |
viii, 178 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Beyond contract? Dualist legacies, late-modern anxieties and the sanctity of the child -- Modernity, contract and the public/private binary -- The pursuit of equality and late-modern anxieties -- The sanctity of the child -- Connections imperiled -- The impossibility of children in the sex trade -- 2. Prostitutes, children and slaves -- The anomaly of prostitution -- International debates on prostitution : division and consensus -- The child as object -- The variability of prostitution -- Slavery and freedom -- Unfree prostitution in context -- 3. On child prostitutes as objects, victims and subjects -- Poverty plus? -- Factoring in other forms of oppression -- Children as agents -- Boundary troubles revisited -- Victims of childhood? -- 4. Child migration and 'trafficking' -- What is 'trafficking'? -- The politics of 'trafficking' : part 1 -- The politics of 'trafficking' : part 2 -- 'Trafficking' defined? -- Voluntary/forced and adult/child dualisms revisited -- Continuums and impermanence in prostitution -- Global subjects -- Between grief and nothing -- 5. 'Paedophilia', pornography and prostitution -- Paedophilia and sexual politics -- The child, the paedophile, and subject-object troubles -- Consuming desire : the case of child pornography -- Paedophilia and commercially produced pornography -- Paedophiles and prostitution -- Beyond paedophilia -- 6. Children in mainstream prostitution : the problem of demand -- Who buys sex? -- Why consume commercial sexual services? -- Choosing children -- Demand for embodied labour -- Policy implications -- 7. Child sex tourism -- 'Paedophiles who travel abroad' and campaigns against them -- Blurring the boundary -- Travel, sex and inequality -- The scene and the obscene -- Saying `no to child sex tourism!' -- 8. Beyond binaries? -- Redemption songs -- Re-imagining the subject and the social bond -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
| Subject |
Child prostitution.
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Child sexual abuse.
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Child pornography.
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| ISBN |
074562927X cased |
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9780745629278 cased |
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0745629288 paperback |
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9780745629285 paperback |
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