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Summary: Making the Harm Visible is a ground
breaking collection of writings on the
global sexual exploitation of women and
girls by survivors, activists and
service providers. Making the Harm Visible is a ground breaking collection of writings
on the global sexual exploitation of women and girls by survivors,
activists and service providers. The forty-four pieces from Asia,
Africa, Europe, South America, the Caribbean, North America and the
Middle East offer personal, insightful and challenging perspectives
on sexual violence and prostitution. In response to the real and
profound needs of women and girls throughout the world, the
contributors to this body of work offer an impressive and often
painful body of evidence of the harm caused by sexual exploitation
and violence. They reveal a spectrum of violence and exploitation
from a variety of cultures and contexts, with the main focus on how
prostitution industries objectify and exploit women and girls. These
accounts and reports describe how women are resisting the violence
done to them as individuals and to the women and girls in their
communities. They are speaking out, organizing protests, building
programs and movements and providing services to stop the violence,
heal the harm, and prevent future exploitation. The chorus of voices
recorded in these pages continues the tradition and important work of
women in effecting social change. The contributors to this volume
share the common goal of ending violence and the sexual exploitation
of women and girls. They are survivors and visionaries who are not
afraid to confront overwhelming problems and remain steadfast in
their work. Most of them know that their goal is nothing less than
revolutionary.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Donna M. Hughes
Globalization, Human Rights and Sexual Exploitation
Aida F. Santos
Confronting Trafficking, Prostitution and Sexual Exploitation: The
Struggle for Survival and Dignity
Aurora Javate de Dios
Prostitution: A Form of Modern Slavery
Dorchen A. Leidholdt
Legalizing Prostitution: Legitimizing Abuse
Donna M. Hughes
The Health Effects of Prostitution
Janice G. Raymond
The Internet and the Global Prostitution Industry
Donna M. Hughes
Why Do Men Buy Women in Prostitution?
Research Project on Men and Prostitution
The Violence of Silence: Survivor Testimony in Political Struggle
Malka Marcovich
Never Be Quiet
Angel Cassidy
Asia
The Sale of Women and Girls to Brothels in Cambodia Cambodian Women's
Crisis Center Corregidor Tales
Aida F. Santos
Memories
Aida F. Santos
Trafficking and Prostitution in Bangladesh: Contradictions in Law and
Practice
Sigma Huda
Blazing Trails, Confronting Challenges: The Sexual Exploitation of
Women and Girls in the Philippines
Aida F. Santos
Support Groups for Survivors of the Prostitution Industry in Manila
Martha Daguno
Africa
Prostitution in Mali
Fatoumata Sire Diakite
Australia
Marketing Women's Sexual Exploitation in Australia
Mary Sullivan
Europe
Russian Women in Norway
Asta Beate Haaland
Legalizing Pimping, Dutch Style
Marie-Victoire Louis
Human Rights: A European Challenge?
Malka Marcovich
Women United Can Make A Difference: The Situation in Spain and the
European Union
Asuncion Miura
Middle East
Iranian Women and Girls: Victims of Exploitation and Violence
Sarvnaz Chitsaz and Soona Samsami
Women's Activism for Freedom in Iran
Ladan Pardeshenas
North America
You Need Some Place to Escape To
Minerva Kalenandi
They Are Showing Your Face
Victoria Marinelli
Making the Harm Visible
Norma Hotaling
A Commitment to Living
Jill Leighton and Katherine DePasquale
What Happens to Women in Prostitution in the United States
Norma Hotaling
Strip Clubs According to Strippers
Kelly Holsopple
Not Sex Work (A Manifesto)
Victoria Marinelli
Phoenix Rising
Kathleen Mitchell
Breaking Free in Minnesota
Vednita Carter
She Let Me Talk and She Listened
Jill Leighton
Still Alive and Fighting in Canada
Jenny
The First Offender Prostitution Program in San Francisco
Norma Hotaling
I'd Like to Make Us Our Own Quilt
Victoria Marinelli
Surviving Sexual Slavery: Women in Search of Freedom
Christine Grussendorf
South America
Report from Latin America
Zoraida Ramirez Rodriguez
My Experience, I Don't Want for Anyone
Alexia
The Center for Psycho-Social Rehabilitation in Chile
Marlene Sandoval
Casa de Passagem in Brazil
Ana Vasconcelos
Prostitution and Mothers with Special Needs in Argentina
Claudia Vigil
Preventative Action Against Prostitution in Venezuela
Zoraida Ramirez Rodriguez
Editors:
Donna M. Hughes is the Education and Research Coordinator of the
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women. She holds the Eleanor M. and
Oscar M. Carlson Endowed Chair in Women's Studies and is the Director
of Women's Studies at the University of Rhode Island. Claire M. Roche
is a Ph.D. candidate in Rhetoric and Composition at the
University of Rhode Island. The Coalition Against Trafficking in
Women is a feminist human rights nongovernmental organization that
works internationally to oppose all forms of sexual exploitation.
Formed in 1989, the Coalition has Category II Consultative Status
with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
February 1999, 354 pages, $10.00
Owner: Donna M. Hughes and Claire M. Roche