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Book SynopsisThis compelling new book explores the complexities of the global child sex industry, but without falling into cliche and melodrama.
Trade Review"O'Connell Davidson moves us beyond the horror and outrage of children in the global children in the global sex trade to ask some more fundamental questions about children's relationsips with adults. Challenging popular conceptions of sex abuse and victimisation, this brave, intelligent and thought-provoking book demands our attention and concern."
Allison James, University of Sheffield
"This is a brave and powerful book, sizzling with brilliant insights and analysis. Avoiding easy moral and criticisms and challenging feminist views that rigidly separate children and adults, sex and work, O'Connell Davidson offers an original re-examination of the empirical, political and moral meaning of a global sex trade industry.
Children in the Global Sex Trade is a must-read for scholars, activists, sex workers and policy-makers."
Steven Seidman, State University of New York at AlbanyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements.
Introduction.
1. Beyond Contract? Dualist Legacies, Late-Modern Anxieties and the Sanctity of the Child.
Modernity, Contract and the Public/Private Binary.
The Pursuit of Equality and Late-Modern Anxieties.
The Sanctity of the Child.
Connections Imperilled.
The Impossibility of Children in the Sex Trade.
2. Prostitutes, Children, and Slaves.
The Anomaly of Prostitution.
International Debates on Prostitution: Division and Consensus.
The Child as Object.
The Variability of Prostitution.
Slavery and Freedom.
Unfree Prostitution in Context.
3. On Child Prostitutes as Objects, Victims and Subjects.
Poverty Plus?.
Factoring in Other Forms of Oppression.
Children as Agents.
Boundary Troubles Revisited.
Victims of Childhood?.
4. Child Migration and 'Trafficking'.
What is 'Trafficking'?.
The Politics of 'Trafficking': Part 1.
The Politics of 'Trafficking': Part 2.
'Trafficking' Defined?.
Voluntary/Forced and Adult/Child Dualisms Revisited.
Continuums and Impermanence in Prostitution.
Global Subjects.
Between Grief and Nothing.
5. 'Paedophilia', Pornography and Prostitution.
Paedophilia and Sexual Politics.
The Child, the Paedophile, and Subject-Object Troubles.
Consuming Desire: the Case of Child Pornography.
Paedophilia and Commercially Produced Pornography.
Paedophiles and Prostitution.
Beyond Paedophilia.
6. Children in Mainstream Prostitution: the Problem of Demand.
Who Buys Sex?.
Why Consume Commercial Sexual Services?.
Choosing Children.
Demand for Embodied Labour.
Policy Implications.
7. Child Sex Tourism.
'Paedophiles who Travel Abroad' and Campaigns Against Them.
Blurring the Boundary.
Travel, Sex and Inequality.
The Scene and the Obscene.
Saying 'No to Child Sex Tourism!'.
8. Beyond Binaries.
Redemption Songs.
Re-imagining the Subject and the Social Bond.
Notes.
References.
Index.
