Yvonne C Zimmerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1210025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yvonne C Zimmerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yvonne C |
| FAMILY NAME | Zimmerman |
| SIGNATURE | ZIMMERMAN Y C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Methodist Theological School in Ohio |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7780-5841 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Learning from Black Lives Matter
Persistent racial disparities in antitrafficking in the US reflect the antitrafficking movement's reliance on a moral economy of purity and blamelessness that is steeped in White supremacy. I deconstruct two key strands of this moral economy: the middle-class economic values associated with the Protestant ethic, and the patriarchal, Christian values around gender and sexuality associated with purity culture. Both of these strands skew White and f…
Disrupting religious privilege
Religion engages people&s;s deepest convictions about the world and what their places in it should be. It is central to how many people understand themselves and organise their identities. Religion intersects with anti-trafficking activism and advocacy in multiple and complex ways. Sociologist Elizabeth Bernstein and religious studies scholar Janet Jakobsen challenge the idea that the impact of religious influence on anti-trafficking activism and…
Other Dreams of Freedom
Focusing on the public face of the federal government's anti–human trafficking project during the presidential administration of George W. Bush, this book explores how the religious values of Protestant Christianity regarding sexual morality and gender propriety intersected with and shaped the United States' federal initiative to eliminate human trafficking. From perceptions of what human trafficking essentially is, to the understanding of the mo…
Christianity and Human Trafficking
Christian involvement with advocacy and activism on human trafficking, an umbrella category that refers to the variety of processes by which individuals become enslaved, has proliferated during the last 15 years. This essay briefly introduces the topic of human trafficking, and provides an overview of three social movements that set important historical precedents for Christian anti-trafficking activism in the present: 19th century abolitionist m…
Christianity and Human Trafficking
Christian involvement with advocacy and activism on human trafficking, an umbrella category that refers to the variety of processes by which individuals become enslaved, has proliferated during the last 15 years. This essay briefly introduces the topic of human trafficking, and provides an overview of three social movements that set important historical precedents for Christian anti-trafficking activism in the present: 19th century abolitionist m…
Learning from Black Lives Matter
Persistent racial disparities in antitrafficking in the US reflect the antitrafficking movement's reliance on a moral economy of purity and blamelessness that is steeped in White supremacy. I deconstruct two key strands of this moral economy: the middle-class economic values associated with the Protestant ethic, and the patriarchal, Christian values around gender and sexuality associated with purity culture. Both of these strands skew White and f…
Christianity and Human Trafficking
Christian involvement with advocacy and activism on human trafficking, an umbrella category that refers to the variety of processes by which individuals become enslaved, has proliferated during the last 15 years. This essay briefly introduces the topic of human trafficking, and provides an overview of three social movements that set important historical precedents for Christian anti-trafficking activism in the present: 19th century abolitionist m…
Other Dreams of Freedom
Focusing on the public face of the federal government's anti–human trafficking project during the presidential administration of George W. Bush, this book explores how the religious values of Protestant Christianity regarding sexual morality and gender propriety intersected with and shaped the United States' federal initiative to eliminate human trafficking. From perceptions of what human trafficking essentially is, to the understanding of the mo…
Disrupting religious privilege
Religion engages people&s;s deepest convictions about the world and what their places in it should be. It is central to how many people understand themselves and organise their identities. Religion intersects with anti-trafficking activism and advocacy in multiple and complex ways. Sociologist Elizabeth Bernstein and religious studies scholar Janet Jakobsen challenge the idea that the impact of religious influence on anti-trafficking activism and…
Learning from Black Lives Matter
Persistent racial disparities in antitrafficking in the US reflect the antitrafficking movement's reliance on a moral economy of purity and blamelessness that is steeped in White supremacy. I deconstruct two key strands of this moral economy: the middle-class economic values associated with the Protestant ethic, and the patriarchal, Christian values around gender and sexuality associated with purity culture. Both of these strands skew White and f…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sex work and related issues (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Christianity (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (2 works)