This blog is created by students from Clemson University's spring 2009 course Women's Studies 459 - "Building Bodies: Women's Bodies in Theory and Practice." This class explores the construction of bodies from various methodological perspectives, focusing on five specific areas: theories of bodies; bodies and genders and sexes; “misbehaving” bodies; politics of bodies; and constructing bodies. We welcome comments and contributions to our posts and discussions.

23 April 2009

Sex Slaves

So I know that I was talking about the frontline video in class today on sex trafficking. I just find it to be really interesting so here's the preview.

The whole frontline page is pretty interesting. I went to the section called join the discussion and read a few comments, some of which were not helpful at all but some of which discussed how factors like poverty levels lead women to become trapped in theses situations. I just thought I'd share! I think what's interesting here to me is that one of the traffickers is female (Olga) which is something that I had previously not considered before we viewed this video in class. I suppose I just assumed that all sex traffickers were male but that is certainly not the case!

Sex Slaves Frontline Page

I just re-googled it and it actually looks like you can watch the whole video. But if you don't have time at least watch the excerpt!

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