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5 - To Rescue or Empower: Building a Collaborative Adversarial Movement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 September 2018

Carrie N. Baker
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Smith College, Massachusetts
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The movement against the US youth sex trade grew and diversified between 2005 and 2010, becoming a collaborative adversarial movement that was able to reframe youth involvement in the sex trade as "domestic minor sex trafficking." Feminist advocates working alongside a growing number of evangelical organizations had diverse ideologies, strategies and framings of the issue. Religious groups often framed the problem in terms of rescuing innocent children and prosecuting exploitative adults, whereas feminist groups were more likely to focus on youth empowerment and expanding services for youth. Despite their differences, diverse activists collaborated on particular goals, like safe harbor laws and the reauthorization of the TVPA with expanded funding for youth services. Some activists, like Rachel Lloyd, spoke explicitly about the role of race in the criminalization of girls involved in prostitution, and condemned systemic inequities that made girls vulnerable to entering the sex trade. Racialized and gendered narratives of sexual exploitation, however, continued to predominate in public discussions of the issue, particularly in the media.
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Fighting the US Youth Sex Trade
Gender, Race, and Politics
, pp. 120 - 160
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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