A Feminist Approach to the Study of Sex Trafficking and Prostitution in Allison Hobbs’s Stealing Candy
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2018
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The present study focuses on the implementation of feminist theory to the issueof sextrafficking and prostitution throughan analysis of Allison Hobbs’snovelStealing Candy. Sex trafficking and prostitution are not synonyms,but both are interrelated. Sex trafficking and prostitution are presentedinthe novel throughthree teenage girlsfrom differentbackgroundsare abducted and are emotionally manipulated andbrainwashedinto accepting sexual enslavementas their hopeless plight in life.Various feminists discussed and are still discussing issues of sex trafficking and prostitution in their works and try to constructing some solutions to this crime.But some feminists are in favor of prostitution as a sex work. So,this papershows the journeyof teenage girls from normal life to prostituted lifeand how feminism reactsto sex trafficking.
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Garg, Geetika and Zafar, Shahila (2018) A Feminist Approach to the Study of Sex Trafficking and Prostitution in Allison Hobbs’s Stealing Candy. International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities. Vol. 6(4), PP.155-162