No One Shall Be Held in Slavery or Servitude: A critical analysis of international slavery conventions
Traces the development of slavery definitions in international agreements from 1815 to 2001. Overview of slavery definitions in international law; Historical analysis of the evolution of slavery definitions in international agreements; Analysis of the main characteristics of slavery in international agreements; Types of social theory that can be used in illuminating slavery; Discussion on the dimensions of slavery.
Men Who Own Women: A Thirteenth Amendment Critique of Forced Prostitution
"He had a six-foot bullwhip and he hit me in the head with it.... We got home and he beat me with that bullwhip and told me to go to sleep."' These are not the words of an antebellum slave but the cries of a prostitute, describing not her slave owner but her pimp. How many women live through this type of abuse every day remains unknown. Like slaves, prostitutes are raped, beaten, and tortured at the whim of the men who control them. It is no coincidence that at the start of the twentieth century the U.S. government referred to coerced prostitution as "white slavery.' 2 Nor was it a clerical error which led the United Nations to address prostitution in its Working Group on Slavery.3 Indeed, international antislavery organizations such as the International Abolitionist Federation campaign against forced prostitution.4 Similarly, it was no surprise that upon his visit to
From the World Literature
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi INTRODUCTION: Goethe Coins a Phrase 1 PART ONE: CIRCULATION Chapter 1: Gilgamesh's Quest 39 Chapter 2: The Pope's Blowgun 78 Chapter 3: From the Old World to the Whole World 110 PART TWO: TRANSLATION Chapter 4: Love in the Necropolis 147 Chapter 5: The Afterlife of Mechthild von Magdeburg 170 Chapter 6: Kafka Comes Home 187 PART THREE: PRODUCTION Chapter 7: English in the World 209 Chapter 8: Rigoberta Menchu in Print 231 Chapter 9: The Poisoned Book 260 CONCLUSION: World Enough and Time 281 BIBLIOGRAPHY 305 INDEX 319