Study of Women and Gender 323 - SEM: SEX, TRADE & TRAFFICKING

This seminar is an interdisciplinary examination of the international and domestic sex trade and trafficking involving women and girls, including sex trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation of girls, brokered, forced, and child marriage, and sex work. We will explore the social, economic and political conditions that shape these practices, including poverty and wealth inequality, globalization, war, technology, restrictions on migration, and ideologies of race, gender and nation. We will also examine the social movements that address sex trafficking and sex work, particularly divisions among activists working on these issues, and learn about and assess anti-trafficking laws and public policies.  Throughout the seminar, we will analyze these issues from a feminist intersectional perspective. Prerequisites: SWG 150, one additional course in the major, and permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15.

Instructor Permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores