"A powerful work filled with disbelief, outrage, and documentation...sexual bondage shackles women as much today as it has for centures."
—Los Angeles Times
"Exposes the dark side of sexuality and dares to ask the crucial question, 'why do men do these things to women?'...the issues it raises deserve nationwide attention."
—Susan Brownmiller
"Kathy Barry has written a courageous, crusading book that should be read everywhere, from the local District Attorney's office to the United Nations."
—Gloria Steinem
"This powerful and compassionate book should be read by anyone concerned with social values, with sexuality, with psychology — female and male."
—Adrienne Rich
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The author of the acclaimed biography Susan B. Anthony, KATHLEEN BARRY teaches in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Pennsylvania State University.
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Book Description Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. First Edition. 274pp, index, appendices. Or red cloth in jacket. Slightest of edge wear, jacket has faded spine, a 1" tear and some chipping at the head and foot of spine. A shocking and illuminating account of actual feamle enslavement by procurers, pimps, and slave traders as well as enforced marriages and polygynous arrangements. Focusing on forced prostitution the book details the international traffic in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and other parts of the world, and includes the full text of a previously suppressed INTERPOL report to the UN. Aslo examines background and history, and the larger social, political and economic issues. It discusses the concept of cultural sadism in which sexual slavery is connected to rape, wife battery, incest, pornography and other forms of exploitation and abuse of women. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 001112