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Female Sexual Slavery |  | Author: Kathleen Barry
Publisher: NYU Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1038301
Media: Paperback
Pages: 325
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0814710697
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.742
EAN: 9780814710692
ASIN: 0814710697
Publication Date: December 1, 1984
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"A powerful work filled with disbelief, outrage, and documentation...sexual bondage shackles women as much today as it has for centures."
—Los Angeles Times "Exposes the dark side of sexuality and dares to ask the crucial question, 'why do men do these things to women?'...the issues it raises deserve nationwide attention."
—Susan Brownmiller "Kathy Barry has written a courageous, crusading book that should be read everywhere, from the local District Attorney's office to the United Nations."
—Gloria Steinem "This powerful and compassionate book should be read by anyone concerned with social values, with sexuality, with psychology — female and male."
—Adrienne Rich
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 paleo-feminist cant for true believers November 17, 2006
Scott C. Locklin (Berkeley CA)
3 out of 12 found this review helpful
I'm convinced: nobody picks up such books excepting out of puerile interest, and I am no exception. In fact, reading this book further convinced me that nobody writes such things excepting out of puerile interest. I was rather hoping to learn something of the psychodynamics of the seraglio, or some nifty historiographical slease on slavery, or even some outright filth with an intellectual veneer. I was somewhat disappointed in this. While it contained fairly predictable chapters on the paleo-feminist bugaboos of prostitution and wife-beating; it did contain quite a bit of bathroom material on actual modern day instances of egregious (or actual, depending on your susceptibility to feminist rhetoric) female sexual slavery. Whips, shackles, harems; the whole horrifying, grotesque lot; like something out of a vision of hell. Much of the book more or less was a complaint on common and horrible the phenomenon is. At the end; her "proof," the interpol report on the subject, pinpointing about 100 known cases a year of it in the whole world.
She also cited data which she said proved porn caused rape. They found that something like 45% of rapists had been exposed to porn. But 65% of the rest of the population had been exposed to porn! With her hilarious "thinking," she took this as proof that, not only does porn cause rape, but most men are rapists! Perhaps mathematics and logic are oppressive tools of the patriarchy. The punchline after thumbing through the drivel, was the photograph of the author. I'm not sure if it is "spiteful" to mention it, but she looks like someone who something horrible happened to; she practically cringes in her photograph. Or perhaps someone who wishes something horrible would happen to her, so she can do more than suffer for all the world's sins. You really have to wonder about people who think about sexual slavery this much. Such an obsession can not be good for mental hygiene.
 Women, beware of men! January 22, 2000
cactus writer (Arizona, USA)
16 out of 23 found this review helpful
Barry presents her case for female sexual slavery quite convincingly, except that she leaves out one very important detail - agency. Throughout the book she refers to men in general as the perpetrators of all of women's suffering, especially in the case of prostitution. While many feminists before her have made similar claims, none have been able to write such an influencing book without identifying specific actors.Copyrighted in 1979, just 6 years after the prostitutes' rights movement was formed in the USA, Barry's work inspired Giobbe to form WHISPER, Women Hurt in Systems of Prostitution Engaged in Revolt. Many scholars have claimed that this book was a response to Margo St. James' attempts to legitimize prostitution. Barry's book has enjoyed widespread recognition in circles of feminist scholars. While I find her research shoddy and specificity of agency lacking, I recommend the book to those interested in the prostitutes' rights movement. Barry's sensationalism inspired a new social movement organization that is still active more than 20 years later. For those further interested in the sexual victimization of women, I would recommend Andrea Dworkin's _Pornography: Men Possessing Women_. To learn about another prominent organization in the prostitutes' rights movement, COYOTE, see Valerie Jenness' _Making it Work: The Prostitutes' Rights Movement in Perspective_.
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