- READING LIST -
Below we've gathered an extensive and educational list of books, studies and papers that will inform your knowledge of sex trafficking.
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwid. By Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn. Knopf, 2009. An instant best-seller from the award-winning New York TImes columnist and his wife, this beautiful and inspiring book reminds us all that without women and their contributions that the world would be incomplete.
Sex Trafficking in South Asia: Telling Maya's Story. By Mary Crawford. Routledge, 2009. A professor of psychology and women's studies at the University of Connecticut, Crawford tells the story of one girl, Maya, and the travails she experiencs as a sex trafficking victim. As moving as it informative, this book will change the way one thinks about the root causes of sex trafficking - a product of gender and class discrimination.
Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery. By Siddartha Kara. Columbia University Press, 2008. Kara, a former investment banker and executive, uses theoretical economics and business analysis to propose measures that could eradicate sex trafficking by undermining the profitability of the illegal activities associated with the crime.
SOLD. By Patricia McCormick. Hyperion Teens, 2006. Compelling fictionalized but factual tale of an innocent Nepali village girl's year in a Calcutta brothel until her rescue by an American from an non-profit organization. The book will raise consciousness about this crime.
Pornography: Driving the Demand in International Sex Trafficking. Captive Daughters Media, 2006. A collection of essays from today's leaders in the fight against sex trafficking, this book explains using captivating and detailed case studies how the demand for pornography ultimately feeds the desire for prositution and sex trafficking.
Sex Trafficking: The Global Market in Women and Children. By, Kathryn Farr. Worth Publishers, 2004. One-stop, accessible reading to educate yourself about global sex-trafficking; although Farr does not include how prostitution plays a major role in sex-trafficking. $23.95 at Amazon.
A Modern Form of Slavery: Trafficking of Burmese Women & Girls Into Brothels in Thailand. Human Rights Watch/Asia, 1993. $15. Human Rights Watch, Publications Dept., 485 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10017-6104. Telephone (212) 986-1980, Fax (212) 972-0905. www.hrw.org
But, I Love Him: Protecting Your Daughter From Controlling, Abusive Dating Relationships, by Dr. Jill Murray. How a teenage girl learns to submerge her personality to her boyfriend Such behavior sets the stage for entrapment by pimps and traffickers. www.drjillmurray.com or $19 at Amazon.
Buying Sex: A Survey of Men in Chicago, by Samir Goswami. A survey conducted by the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, May, 2004. Download from www.chicagohomeless.org. Click on Prostitution Alternatives Roundtable (PART). Check out other current research.
Comfort Women, by George Hicks, W.W. Norton & Company, 1994. $15. Trafficking of Korean women for the pleasure (and inhuman abuse) by Japanese military during WWII. The most extensive record available in English of survivors of this horror.
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in the U.S., Canada & Mexico, by Drs. R.Estes and N. Weiner, University of PA School of Social Work, 2001
Demand Dynamics: The Forces of Demand in Global Sex Trafficking, Morrison Torrey and Sara Dubin, Editors, International Human Rights Law Institute, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois. 2003 Demand Dynamics conference report. Order through DePaul at ihrili@depaul.edu
Demand in Global Sex Trafficking - A Bibliography, compiled by Heena Musabji, International Human Rights Law Institute, DePaul University, 2003. On line at www.law.depaul.edu/ihrli and www.captivedaughters.org
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, by Kevin Bales. University of California Press, 1999. $13 paperback (Amazon) Exhaustive research showing that some 27 million people are currently enslaved around the world. Bales, is the considered world authority on slavery.
Female Sexual Slavery, by Kathleen Barry. New York University Press, various editions. A landmark study of prostitution and violence against women.
Forced Labor: The Prostitution of Children, Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, International Child Labor Study Office, 1996. Free. Department of Labor, International Child Labor Study Office. Orders can be taken by phone at (202) 208-4843 or by fax (202) 219-4923.
The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy by Allan G. Johnson. Outstanding. Order here from Amazon - $22
Human Rights Report on Trafficking of Women and Children: A Country-by-Country Report on a Contemporary Form of Slavery, by Laura Lederer, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. $40 www.protectionproject.org
The Idea of Prostitution, by Shelia Jeffreys. Spinfex, 1997, Melbourne, Australia. Excellent. Order through Amazon.
In the Land of God & Man: Confronting our Sexual Culture, by Silvana Paternostro. Dutton, New York, 1998. $20 (Amazon) A must read book–the Rosetta Stone on Latin American patriarchy. Excellent
Karmic Ties: A Novel of Modern Asia, by Stephen Long. Medicine Bear Publishing, Blue Hill, Maine, 1999. Available through Captive Daughters. Check website. Graphic, fictional account of Bangkok’s sex industry.
Listening to Olivia: Violence, Poverty and Prostitution, by Jody Raphael. Northeastern University Press, Boston, 2004. Listening to Olivia is a major contribution to our understanding of the commercial sex industry in the United States.
Night Market: Sexual Cultures and Thai Economic Miracle, by Ryan Bishop & Lillian S. Robinson. Routledge, 1998. Details how the Thai economic “miracle” is being paid for with women’s lives. Outstanding, +++.
Prostitution, Trafficking & Traumatic Stress Disorder, Melissa Farley, Ed., Haworth Press, 2003.
Owed Justice: Thai Women Trafficked Into Debt Bondage in Japan, Human Rights Watch, $15. Publications Dept., 485 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10017-6104. Telephone (212) 986-1980, Fax (212) 972-0905, www.hrw.org
Rape For Profit: Trafficking of Nepali Girls And Women to India’s Brothels, $7.50 Human Rights Watch/Asia, Publications Dept., 485 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10017-61041995, www.hrw.org
Small Hands of Slavery: Bonded Child Labor in India, Human Rights Watch/Asia, 1996. $7.50. Human Rights Watch, Publications Dept., 485 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10017-6104. Telephone (212) 986-1980, Fax (212) 972-0905, www.hrw.org
Smuggled Chinese: Clandestine immigration to the United States, by Ko-Lin Chin. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1999. $18.00 (Amazon) Mr. Chin details snakehead recruitment of illegal immigrants, standard and not so standard routes of entry into the U.S. and what happens upon arrival. Very current material.
The Spinster & Her Enemies: Feminism & Sexuality 1880-1930, by Shelia Jeffreys. Spinifex, Melbourne, Australia, 1985. Order through Amazon.
