1st Edition

Sex Trafficking in South Asia Telling Maya's Story

By Mary Crawford Copyright 2010
206 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Sex Trafficking: The Global and the Local  2. Shangri-La Revisited  3. Nine to Five  4. Nepali Perspectives on Sex Trafficking: The View from Within  5. Telling Maya’s Story: Shaping the Discourse of Sex Trafficking  6. Interventions  7. Strategies for Change 

Biography

Mary Crawford is Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of more than 50 research articles and ten books including Talking Difference, Innovative Methods for Feminist Psychological Research, and Transformations: Women, Gender, and Psychology.

"I found Crawford's study impressive. She does a beautiful job of acknowledging sex trafficking as a global issue but noting that the ways in which it functions and the factors which enable it are situated in local contexts [...] One of the things I find most remarkable about this book is the careful and nuanced way Crawford outlines the multiple contexts/factors that impact sex trafficking in Nepal [...] This book is valuable for multiple audiences; it will be useful for researchers, would be effective in a classroom setting, and is written in a way that makes it relevant and accessible for the general public." - Donna Bickford, The Carolina Women's Center Blog, September 2010