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GLQ (2016) 22 (3): 325–357.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., this article argues that there is a pattern in host cities of such events in which neoliberal agents, state forces, and nongovernmental organizations use discourses of feminism and human rights—especially unfounded fears about a link between sex trafficking and sports—to enact such changes regardless...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (1): 135–143.
Published: 01 January 2011
... offered in “Thinking Sex,” along with the title “The Traffic in Women,” deli- ciously borrowed from the work of turn-­of-­the-­century anarchist Emma Goldman, bring us full circle to the growth and intensification of trafficking, particularly of women, as a contemporary global concern and riveting...
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GLQ (2022) 28 (4): 541–566.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of the history of sexuality beyond the nation-state. This history begins in the 1920s and 1930s, when the League of Nations sponsored a massive investigation into international sex trafficking, through surveillance of port cities across the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. These investigations reveal...
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GLQ (2024) 30 (3): 337–341.
Published: 01 June 2024
... and obscene through laws such as the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) and the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), passed in 2018. In some ways, I have been writing about sex and racialized sexuality my entire career. In Queer Latinidad (2003), I wrote about AIDS and Latinx activism and my...
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GLQ (2015) 21 (1): 174–176.
Published: 01 January 2015
... underage girls from prostitution and sextrafficking networks, while chapter 6 explores internationalist feminist antiharassment projects in Cairo that demonized working-­class male youths and disreputable public femininities. In a critical sense, then, for Amar, queering refers...
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GLQ (2024) 30 (3): 356–358.
Published: 01 June 2024
... are from, and in Italy, a common immigration destination for Brazilian travestis, where he tries to make sense of a possible sex trafficking scheme. As already indicated in the title, Silva centers the argument of the book on the opposition between “normative” and “minoritarian” liberalism, briefly...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (1): 155–165.
Published: 01 January 2011
... expansive sex offender laws, narratives about sex trafficking, as well as the more insidious ways in which fears and fearmongering around sex and sexuality snake their way through the agendas of the post-­9/11 security state. Rubin’s powerful opening exhortation — ­“The time...
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GLQ (2024) 30 (3): 291–315.
Published: 01 June 2024
... and plays with her butt in a camgirl-style video. While her imagined viewer might be jerking off with her, Anahí educates him through intertitles in English and Spanish about the difference between sex work and sex trafficking and the way that US laws like Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) and Stop...
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GLQ (2020) 26 (1): 103–128.
Published: 01 January 2020
... of humanitarian efforts to stop human sex trafficking, the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act and Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (FOSTA/SESTA), which became law in 2018, holds websites responsible for posts that putatively advertise for prostitution by users. In effect, these laws conflate sex work with sex...
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GLQ (2022) 28 (2): 259–276.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., Mock claims, “My experience with sex work is not that of the trafficked young girl or the fierce sex-positive woman who proudly chooses sex work as her occupation. My experience mirrors that of the vulnerable girl with few resources” (177). The sex trade gave Mock, and the many Black transgender women...
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GLQ (2008) 14 (4): 457–479.
Published: 01 October 2008
...-pressed not only by the continued illegal status of sex work but more profoundly by the insistence of First World antitrafficking NGOs that women’s migration toward economic betterment and their choice of sex work are nothing but forms of trafficking and exploitation. 16. Margaret E...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 January 2011
... of heterosexuality and the significance of “Thinking Sex” to current debates on sex trafficking (Vance); and the history of Rubin’s “passionate engagements” and the “affective surround” of the sex wars (Lisa Duggan). In adding to these powerful accounts of her work and her...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (1): 15–48.
Published: 01 January 2011
.... Most now describe their target as “sex trafficking,” to which they are bringing the same agenda they brought to pornography and which they hope to codify in international law and policy.64 For example, Dorchen Leidholdt helped found the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) and has...
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GLQ (2013) 19 (1): 57–78.
Published: 01 January 2013
... cultural anxieties about mobility at several levels: sex hormones' status as fluctuating chemicals in the body; their ability to alter the body and thus overtly demonstrate the fluidity of sex and gender categories; the shifting medicolegal investments in linking hormones with normative sexual, racial...
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GLQ (2017) 23 (1): 154–156.
Published: 01 January 2017
... circles, global feminist discourse, and academic conversations sur- rounding gender and agency, sex work has often been framed as an exceptional space of disempowerment, trafficking, and exploitation. Svati P. Shah’s beautifully engaged ethnography, Street Corner Secrets: Sex...
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GLQ (2022) 28 (3): 473–477.
Published: 01 June 2022
... offense. While one ministry conflated sex work with trafficking, another advocated legal safeguards for sex workers. One judgment ruled in favor of Section 377, thus criminalizing sexual expression, while another judgment enshrined the citizenship rights of any person, irrespective of gender expression...
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GLQ (2008) 14 (2-3): 239–262.
Published: 01 June 2008
... and share a different migration history with neocolonial Australia. They are either popular tourist destinations or sources for “mail-order” brides and sex trafficking. Although organized outside the domestic space, kinship, and the family and thus amenable to queer intimate...
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GLQ (2001) 7 (4): 663–679.
Published: 01 October 2001
... and to new forms of globalization in late capitalism. From global trafficking of women to sex tourism, the topic of tourism provides a window onto specific connections among national- ism, political economy, and cultural formations. The debate about global traffick...
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GLQ (2020) 26 (3): 561–573.
Published: 01 June 2020
... of a Liberal Education for Africans . Cambridge, MA : John Wilson and Son . Blyden Edward Wilmot . ( 1908 ) 1994 . African Life and Customs . Baltimore, MD : Black Classic’s Press . Burton Jonathan . 2013 . “ ‘A Most Wily Bird’: Leo Africanus, Othello, and the Trafficking in Difference...
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GLQ (2011) 17 (4): 665–676.
Published: 01 October 2011
... of television as mass entertainment, or to our comprehension of the complex and uneven historical struggle toward LGBTQ equality, or to mainstream popular culture’s voyeuristic trafficking in the knotty discursive imbrications of gender and sex, heteronormativity, and erotic desires...