Barry's first book, Female Sexual Slavery (1979), prompted international awareness of human sex trafficking [7] and has been translated into six languages.[6] Her follow-up to Female Sexual Slavery, The Prostitution of Sexuality (1995) discusses the idea of "consent" in liberal modern American discourse, concluding that "every form of oppression is sustained" through apparent consent by the oppressed group or class to their exploitation.[8][9] She further concludes that the normalization and acceptance of prostitution based on arguments of prostitutes' consent ignores the human-rights principle that violation cannot be consented to. She states that women, as members of an oppressed class under patriarchy, are compelled to "consent" to their own sexual exploitation by society, much in the way a Marxist would say workers are compelled to cooperate with their oppressors, the capitalists.[10][11][12]
— (March 5–7, 1993). Keynote (Speech). Feminist Legal Perspectives on Pornography and Hate Propaganda.
— (1995). "Pornography and Global Sexual Exploitation: A New Agenda for Feminist Human Rights". In Lederer, Laura; Delgado, Richard (eds.). The Price We Pay: The Case Against Racist Speech, Hate Propaganda, and Pornography. New York: Hill and Wang. ISBN9780809015771.
— (1996). "Deconstructing Deconstructionism (or, whatever happened to feminist studies?)" and "Pornography and the Global Sexual Exploitation of Women". In Bell, Diane; Klein, Renate (eds.). Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed. North Melbourne, Vic: Spinifex Press. ISBN9781875559381.
^The Prostitution of Sexuality, 89. New York: New York UP, 1995. Print.
^Pollis, Carol A. (1995). "A Radical Feminist Approach to Confronting the Global Sexual Exploitation of Women". The Journal of Sex Research. 32 (2): 172–174. ISSN0022-4499. JSTOR3812970.
^The Prostitution of Sexuality, 77. New York: New York UP, 1995. Print.
