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Woman, Child For Sale
by
Gilbert King
An in-depth look at the atrocities faced by the unfortunate victims of the modern slave trade here and abroad.
Mass Market Paperbound, 240 pages
Published
August 31st 2004
by Chamberlain Brothers
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Huma Rashid
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This reads like a really reader-friendly UN report. Tons of stats and research, and references to specific cases (including an index of cases in the back) make this a great starting point for anyone interested in prostitution and trafficking. It also includes a run-down of many major countries in the sex trade and explains their Tier status, which was particularly interesting. One thing that disappointed me, however, was that this book almost seemed to take pains to not talk about domestic Ameri...more
Eva
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This isn't personal accounts of people who were trafficked- this is more of a starting point to learn about trafficking. King included some accounts of actual trafficking but it was much more about actual numbers and statistics.
Being that this is the first book I've read on the subject it was perfect for me. From the kind of books I'm used to reading I would have liked it better had it been more personal- I wanted to know details of actual accounts- not a broad perspective but that's for ...more
Being that this is the first book I've read on the subject it was perfect for me. From the kind of books I'm used to reading I would have liked it better had it been more personal- I wanted to know details of actual accounts- not a broad perspective but that's for ...more
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I read this book for my book club. I finished it, but I can't say I particularly enjoyed it. In fact, it only took me two days to read it because it goes very quickly. This may be due in part to the fact that it's extremely repetitive. In fact, the same sentences are recycled verbatim in one section (as if it isn't enough to explain three categories at the beginning and then refer to them by name instead of describing them again in each case). By the time I got to the appendices I felt like I wa...more
The only helpful information I received from this book was about the Tier 1-3 information. Otherwise I didn't really get much out of it. The examples they gave of former slaves did not get you attached in any way. I did enjoy learning some of the former slave history though. I highly recommend NOT FOR SALE as a read if you want to learn a lot more about human trafficking. This book was too short really. I didn't get sucked into it as much as other human trafficking books
This is a good book about child and sex slavery. It gives many true examples of life in this enviornment and the loss and hardship that comes with it.
I sort of just stumbled upon this read... think Borders sale bins. At any rate it wasn't horrible. The information was definitely there it just wasn't in a very interesting, insightful, or groundbreaking package. It was sort of a THS Investigates version of this subject. However, I think that for someone not too familiar with everything going on it might serve as a good start to just getting the idea out there that this type of traffic is, unfortunately, alive and well, and a lot closer to o...more
margaret
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This is good if you have never read anything about trafficking...but I felt like the author simply took the State Department's Trafficking in person reports and put it in book form. I would have read those on state's website if I wanted to read TIP reports. The Natashas is a much better book about Trafficking.
3rd rate treatment of international trafficking. Stories pulled from the AP and major newspapers combined with undergraduate-level research on the State Department's website. Also, the typeface is really annoying.
didn't quite get through it all. wasn't what i was hoping it would be - would like to find some other resources on trafficking.
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