Feminist Surveillance Studies
Rachel E. Dubrofsky is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of South Florida. She is the author of
Shoshana Amielle Magnet is Associate Professor at the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of
Rachel E. Dubrofsky is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of South Florida. She is the author of
Shoshana Amielle Magnet is Associate Professor at the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of
Surveillance and the Work of Antitrafficking: From Compulsory Examination to International Coordination
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Published:May 2015
Laura Hyun Yi Kang, 2015. "Surveillance and the Work of Antitrafficking: From Compulsory Examination to International Coordination", Feminist Surveillance Studies, Rachel E. Dubrofsky, Shoshana Amielle Magnet
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Through hailing different configurations of women as objects and subjects of surveillance, the long history of efforts to uncover and combat the “traffic in women” offers an instructive case for feminist surveillance studies at this important moment of field formation. The history of anti-trafficking compels attention to a long, jagged history of both diverse surveillance rationales and tactics but also foregrounds multiple surveillance failures and impossibilities. Even as the invocation of a generic “traffic in women and girls” in the early twentieth expanded the reach of the problem and the corresponding modalities of vigilance, state and civil surveillance over women...
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