{"product_id":"other-dreams-of-freedom","title":"Other Dreams of Freedom","description":"\u003cp\u003eHuman trafficking has captured worldwide attention as a crucial moral and political issue, but perhaps nowhere more than in the United States. Since they were signed into law in 2000, U.S. federal laws and policies on human trafficking have been understood as concrete expressions of the civic values of personal and political freedom. Yet these policies have also been characterized by a marked preoccupation with regulation,  and especially sexual\n\u003cbr\u003eregulation.Yvonne C. Zimmerman offers a groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between freedom and sexual regulation in American anti-human trafficking law and policies. . She argues that the\n\u003cbr\u003ereligious values of American Protestantism have indelibly shaped the federal government's approach to engaging human trafficking, and that the trajectory of the U.S.'s anti-trafficking efforts cannot be fully grasped without  understanding  the unique ways in which sex, morality, and freedom are connected in Protestant Christian configurations of  morality. Zimmerman shows that particularly under the George W. Bush administration, the U.S.'s anti-trafficking project expressed a vision of\n\u003cbr\u003efreedom whose structure and logic is  thoroughly Protestant. . Her analysis challenges the assumption that combating human trafficking necessarily entails sexual regulation, and reveals the extent to which\n\u003cbr\u003ethe preoccupation with sexual regulation has functioned to discourage alternative understandings and practices of freedom, particularly for women.Other Dreams of Freedom demonstrates that if opposition to human trafficking takes the promotion of freedom as the point of departure, then freedom must not be identified strictly with religiously and culturally Protestant understandings, but  ought also permit other understandings of how freedom is constituted,\n\u003cbr\u003epracticed, and maintained.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46060682477806,"sku":"9780199942190","price":116.07,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780199942190.jpg?v=1736517716","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/other-dreams-of-freedom","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}