Slavery in The 21st Century

Chinese women who are bought as wives who bear children are more prone to staying
within the marriage. Fang Yuzhu of the China Women's Federation credits it with a
"strong sense of duty" that Chinese women have, and the idea that it is shameful to
leave their husband. Yuzhu also credits that some women might consider their forced
marriage a better option to the life of poverty and hard labor they would be subject to
upon returning home or the idea that some women may not feel they can find another
husband, since they "have already been with one".
Literature
Literature that
tackles selling
of women as
brides include
titles such as
Niami by Arab
writer Mir Dad,
Mul di Tiveen
(meaning “A
Purchased
Woman” in the
Punjabi
language),
Kudesan
(meaning “a
woman from
other land” in
Punjabi), Eh
Hamara Jeewna by Punjabi novelist Dalip Kaur Tiwana, and the play Ik Hor Ramayan
by playwright Ajmer Aulakh.
In Popular Culture
Bazaar (Market), a 1982 Indian film directed by Sagar Sarhadi is based around the
theme of bride buying expatriate Indians in the Gulf countries from Hyderabad, India.
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