Esther (Hrsg.) Hertzog

Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking in Women

Israel's Blood Money

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This book critically analyzes the sex industry in Israel, using feminist concepts and scholarship to elaborate on the power of prostitution to shape a world in which women are objects for fulfilling men's desires. A comprehensive collection of research-based articles that examine prostitution, trafficking in women and pornography from divergent disciplinary angles, it reveals the interconnectedness of these three aspects of the sex trade which objectifies, commercializes and exploits human - and in particular women's - sexuality. Showing these practices to be embedded in a capitalist and patriarchal oppressive context that is accommodated by… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Shadmi, Erella (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-429-77552-9
EAN: 9780429775529
Produktnummer: 29873150
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 1'711 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Abbildungen: 1 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen

Über den Autor

Esther Hertzog is a social athropologist and a feminist activist. She is the former head of the Social Science Department and the founder of the Anthropology program at Beit Berl Academic College, Israel, and Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Gender Studies at Zefat and Levinsky Academic Colleges, Israel. Prof. Hertzog is the author of Patrons of women: Literacy projects and gender development in rural Nepal and Immigrants and bureaucrats, Ethiopians in an Israeli absorption center, the editor of Life, death and sacrifice: Women and family in the Holocaust, and the co-editor of Serendipity in anthropological research: The nomadic turn and Perspectives on Israeli anthropology.Erella Shadmi is an independent scholar and activist. Formerly, she was the head of the Women's Studies Department and Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Law Enforcement at Beit Berl Academic College, Israel. She also taught women's studies and the sociology of policing at Ben Gurion University and Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies. Dr. Shadmi is also a retired police Lieutenant Colonel. She is the author of Fortified land: Police, policing and the politics of security and Thinking as a woman: Women and feminism in Israel, the editor of Mother's way (on the maternal gift economy and modern matriarchal studies), and the co-editor of Sappho in the Holy Land: Lesbian experiences and dilemmas in Israel and The pursuit of justice: Studies in crime and law enforcement in Israel.