Human 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 regulation.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 religious 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 freedom 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 the 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; practiced; and maintained.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Calloway has done an excellent effort in his research that it enables the reader ...By Patrick J. BaierColin G. Calloway has written so many books relating to the history of the colonies this is not expectation. Mr. Calloway has done an excellent effort in his research that it enables the reader to get the complete picture. the reader will not be disappointed in Mr. Calloway's recent work. A Must read.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Best Book on American Indian Treaties - no longer the "subject nobody knows"By Along Red River of the NorthIn 1995; Vine Deloria Jr. wrote a book review entitled; The Subject Nobody Knows. He lamented that despite a profusion of books on Native American Indian legal rights; “it seems peculiar in the extreme that scholars did not jump at the opportunity to do a book on Indian treaties until the present time.†While every treaty has its own complex story to tell; the one’s selected by Professor Calloway remind us that each one is notable because even if it was unfair; fraudulent or violated; it created a government-to-government relationship between the United States and an American Indian nation. This is why Native peoples have asserted consistently to this day that their inherent sovereign status and accompanying legal rights have been recognized explicitly by the United States through their treaty relationship. With this book; the history of American Indian treaties should no longer be “the subject nobody knows.â€My only "quibble" with the book is the need for more and better maps. While the use of actual historical maps (e.g.; facsimile of a 1768 Fort Stanwix treaty map) may be more "scholarly;" they are almost impossible to decipher even when the reader has some general geographic knowledge of the depicted region.
