Casting Stones: Prostitution and Liberation in Asia and the United States

This stunning look at the global sex industry brings fresh analysis and new approaches to the baffling...
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Author: Rita Nakashima Brock
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Language: English
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Casting Stones: Prostitution and Liberation in Asia and the United States by Brock, Rita Nakashima

Casting Stones: Prostitution and Liberation in Asia and the United States

$93.21

Casting Stones: Prostitution and Liberation in Asia and the United States

$93.21
Author: Rita Nakashima Brock
Format: Paperback
Language: English

This stunning look at the global sex industry brings fresh analysis and new approaches to the baffling and complex issues that surround prostitution.

Religion and society have both cast stones at prostitutes, seeing them as archetypal sinners and blaming them for their situation. Brock and Thistlethwaite, after many years of research, travel, and interviews, offer this cross-cultural study. They compare and highlight structures that sustain prostitution as a global system of exploitation of the most vulnerable in the United States as well as Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, and Taiwan.

This structural analysis is then submitted to a theological critique of doctrines of sin and karma, the traditional rubrics under which religion (in this instance, Christianity and Buddhism) has considered prostitution. The heart of their project is rethinking the deeper cultural and religious notions of sexuality, power, and violence that undergird sexual exploitation. New approaches to prostitution through religious and social change are proposed.

Brock and Thistlethwaite make the case to all persons of conscience that prostitution is a serious social justice issue, and they suggest modes of analysis and practical ways to make a difference. They demand each reader to ask, Who am I to cast the first stone?



Author: Rita Nakashima Brock, Susan B. Thistlewaite
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Published: 09/23/1996
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 9.32h x 5.75w x 0.99d
ISBN: 9780800629793

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