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Presents an inside look at sex slavery worldwide, which U.S. State Department officials estimate affects 800,000 victims each year - primarily women and children trafficked against their will across international borders.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Judy Kuriansky Preface Abbreviations Section Part I: Sexual Slavery of Women in Context Chapter 1:. Scope of the Problem Overview Chapter 2.: Conditions Supporting Sexual Slavery Section Part II: Types of Sexual Slavery Chapter 3: Sex Trafficking Chapter 4: War-Induced Sexual Slavery Chapter 5: Religious Sexual Slavery Chapter 6.: Forced Marriage Chapter 7.: Sexual Servitude Section Part III: Attempts to Reduce or Eliminate Sexual Slavery Chapter 8.: Success Stories: Policies and Legislative Chapter 9.: Consequences of Sexual Slavery and Trafficking of Girls and Women Chapter 10:. Initiatives to Stop Sexual Slavery: International, National, and Legislative Appendices Appendix A1: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women Appendix 2B: Convention on the Rights of the Child Appendix 3C: U.N. Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women 1993 Appendix 4D: PROTOCOL TO PREVENT, SUPPRESS AND PUNISH TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS, ESPECIALLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN, SUPPLEMENTING THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION AGAINST TRANSNATIONALORGANIZED CRIME Glossary References Index List of Illustrations Figure 1. The interaction of factors associated with sexual slavery Figure 2. Global trafficking patterns by source and destination countries

About the Author

Andrea Parrot is a Professor of Human Ecology at Cornell University and a board certified Sex Educator. She has received more than $1.5 million in funding for 15 studies focused on sexuality (including sexual violence/assault and sex education) since 1990. Parrot has authored, co-authored, or edited five books. She is a member of the Board of Directors for the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and a current member/past officer of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex. She has been interviewed widely for radio, television, and newspapers, including two appearances on Oprah as well as Larry King Live, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, The Learning Channel and on NPR with Diane Rehm. Nina Cummings is a PhD candidate at Cornell and an Adjunct Faculty member at Ithaca College. She is also a University Victim Advocate and a Cornell Advocate for Rape Education, as well as a Certified Health Educator. She coauthored with Parrot the book Forsaken Females: The Brutalization of Women. Cummings and Parrot also coauthored articles that have been published in the Journal of American College Health, Vital Signs, and RESPONSE: Journal of the Center for Women's Policy Studies. In 2001, Cummings won the Cornell University Presidential Advisory Committee on the Status of Women Award.

Reviews

In a book that is at once both enlightening and disturbing, Parrot (Cornell) and Cummings (Ithaca College) present a brief but powerful view of the 'global social epidemic' of female sexual enslavement, primarily through the use of multiple specific case examples. The authors do a thorough job of documenting the problem, highlighting its many faces, offering a broad stroke contextual portrait of conditions that allow and exacerbate it, and illuminating potential remedies…An important, timely read for any adult audience…Highly recommended. All levels/libraries.
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