Description
Book SynopsisThe representation of sexual trafficking in the book of Esther has parallels with the cultural memories, histories, and materialized pain of African(a) girls and women across time and space, from the Persian Empire, to subsequent slave trade routes and beyond.
Trafficking Hadassah illuminates that Africana female bodies have been and continue to be colonized and sexualized, exploited for profit and pleasure, causing adverse physical, mental, sexual, socio-cultural, and spiritual consequences for the girls and women concerned. It focuses on sexual trafficking both in the biblical book of Esther and during the transatlantic slave trade to demonstrate how gender and racism intersect with other forms of oppression, including legal oppression, which results in the sexual trafficking of African(a) females. It examines both the conditions and mechanisms by which the trafficking of the virgin girls (who are collectively identified) are legitimated and normalized in the
Table of Contents
An Introduction to Reading Esther 1-2 as a Story of Sexual Trafficking 1. "One Night with the King": Sexual Trafficking in the Book of Esther 2. Sexual Trafficking During the Maafa: A Site of Collective Memory for Africana Girls and Women 3. Stereotypes and Social and Cultural Attitudes Regarding the Africana Female Collective and How these Attitudes Contribute to Sexual Violence 4. "For Such a Time as This?": Conclusions and Implications of Intersectional Polyvocal Africana Biblical Interpretation
