Sex Trafficking in South Asia: Telling Maya's Story

by Mary Crawford

Book Overview

This book is a critical feminist analysis of sex trafficking. Arguing that trafficking in girls and women is a product of the social construction of gender and other dimensions of power and status within a particular culture and at a particular historical moment, this book offers the necessary locally grounded analysis.

Focusing on the case of Nepal, from where 5,000 to 7,000 thousands of Nepali girls and women are trafficked each year...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415778433
• ISBN13: 9780415778435
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"