Feminist approach to Sex Trafficking and Prostitution through Allison Hobbs’s Stealing Candy

Abstract

The present study focuses on the implementation of feminist theory to the issue of sex trafficking and prostitution through an analysis of Allison Hobbs’s novel Stealing Candy. Sex trafficking and prostitution are not synonyms, but both are interrelated. Sex trafficking and prostitution are presented in the novel through three teenage girls from different backgrounds are abducted and are emotionally manipulated and brainwashed into accepting sexual enslavement as 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 paper shows the journey of teenage girls from normal life to prostituted life and how feminism reacts to sex trafficking.