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“Praise Be, Prostitutes as the Women We Are not.” White Slavery and Human Trafficking – an Intersectional Analysis

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Intersectionality und Kritik

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To assume that the recent investigation of the white slave traffic (and, by the way, a very superficial investigation) has discovered anything new, is, to say the least, very foolish. Prostitution has been, and is, a widespread evil, yet mankind goes on its business, perfectly indifferent to the sufferings and distress of the victims of prostitution.

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Whyte, C. (2013). “Praise Be, Prostitutes as the Women We Are not.” White Slavery and Human Trafficking – an Intersectional Analysis. In: Kallenberg, V., Meyer, J., Müller, J. (eds) Intersectionality und Kritik. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-93168-5_6

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