1. Introduction
2. The Evolution of Feminist Engagements with Human Rights
3. The Politics of Human Trafficking
4. Revisiting Feminist Doubts About Human Rights
5. Commercial Sex, Human Rights, and Feminist Anti-Essentialism
6. Erasing Vulnerability: The Invisibility of Men as Trafficked Persons
7. Conclusion: Making the Unrealized Realizable
Biography
Laura A. Hebert is Associate Professor in Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College. Her research interests center on gender, human rights, international law, and international organizations, with a geographic emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia and a thematic focus on gender-based violence.
"Using the topic of human trafficking to unpack debates concerning the relationship between gender and human rights, Gender and Human Rights in a Mobile, Global Era presents a persuasive, multi-disciplinary argument for the sociality of human rights that locates obligation for the tasks of creating just societies with all members of society, not just ‘official actors.’ Hebert’s analysis centers the predicaments of those who are the most precarious in human rights advocacy and practice, while declining all the usual opportunities that attend the topic of human trafficking to lapse into moralism. The result is a compelling moral vision of expansive human flourishing."
Yvonne C. Zimmerman, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Methodist Theological School
