This edited volume focuses on charting the rise of neo-abolitionism and offering a critique of the idea, its logics and consequences. A model of state policy which aims to abolish prostitution through legislation, Neo-abolitionism criminalises the buyer of sex but not the seller. It is currently law in Sweden and other Nordic states and dominates the framing of policy debates in many other Western liberal contexts. Pressure for adoption of this policy has come from radical feminists who understand prostitution and sex trafficking as a form of violence against women.
This volume...
This edited volume focuses on charting the rise of neo-abolitionism and offering a critique of the idea, its logics and consequences. A model of st...
This book examines the traffic in women for marriage, a phenomenon that has been largely overlooked in international efforts to address to the problem of human trafficking. In contrast to current international and state-based approaches to trafficking - which tend to focus on sex trafficking and trafficking for forced labour - this book seeks to establish how marriage, as an institution, is often implicated in the occurrence of trafficking in women.
Through the use of case studies on forced marriage, mail-order bride (MOB) marriage, and Fundamentalist Mormon polygamy, the book...
This book examines the traffic in women for marriage, a phenomenon that has been largely overlooked in international efforts to address to the prob...
This book advances the claims of feminist international relations scholars that the social construction of masculinities is key to resolving the scourges of militarism, sexual violence and international insecurity. More than two decades of feminist research has charted the dynamic relationship between warfare and masculinity, but there has yet to be a detailed account of the role of masculinity in structuring the range of volatile civil conflicts which emerged in the Global South after the end of the Cold War.
By bridging feminist scholarship on international relations with the...
This book advances the claims of feminist international relations scholars that the social construction of masculinities is key to resolving the sc...
Why Women Rebel presents a global analysis of the extent to which women are engaged in armed, organized rebellions, and why they choose to join such rebellions. Henshaw has collected and analyzed data on women s participation in over 70 post-Cold War rebel groups and provides a theoretical analysis drawing upon both mainstream literature in the social sciences and critical, feminist inquiry on women and political violence to offer a new gendered theory on why women rebel.
The book demonstrates that women are active in well over half of all rebel groups sampled and that,...
Why Women Rebel presents a global analysis of the extent to which women are engaged in armed, organized rebellions, and why they choose to...
