...Nicole Constable This article explores, ethnographically and critically, migrant women's contributions to three intersecting sectors of “intimate industries” in Asia: domestic work, sex tourism, and adoption. These three sectors are normally understood as separate and distinct, and in the cases...

..., in the language of the documentary industry they are “cinematic.” What’s more, they are raising kids. These will add depth to the storyline . . . with some college education . . . working at a strip theater as dancers who have sex...

... to deal out supportive statements of sex work and criticism of the incriminating law. In 2003, an alliance of eleven conservative and Christian groups filed a formal complaint with the court, saying that I, as the center’s coordinator...

... reinterpretations of Chinese works of the imperial era that represented idealized female figures from a male perspective. Ladies’ Room , a video that shows behind-the-scenes images of sex workers in a nightclub washroom, brings to mind earlier paintings that depict women in feminine space. Ladies’ Room , however...

... of the putative rights of the unborn, whether sexed or disabled, as the case may be, I argue that we need multiple modes of knowing how decisions are structured in different contexts. Only then can we acknowledge the feminist work that lies ahead in negotiating with women's diverse “choices”—as victims, criminals...

..., or as the ultimate expression of female oppression. Nevertheless, many women who work in the sex trade in Third World and other non- Western countries, including Asia, propose that we understand prostitution in a different light: as work within...

... that the youth at the home are “vulnerable to human trafficking” because of poor parenting stemming from poverty, drug use, and sex work. Several members of the 2013 cohort entered a video competition spon- sored by the Brees Dream...

... into a mature artist and mother whose increasingly unre- strained brushwork and brilliant palette thinly veil the complex insights and apprehensions about humanity that underlie her work. In particular, the artist explores how the commercialization of society has induced an analo- gous consumption of sex...

..., include little contact with sex workers or “trafficking victims,” instead framing Thai women as vulnerable by highlighting the nation’s poverty. Empower worked to alter this framing by stepping into the “humanitar- ian reason...

...), the nineties marked a series of high-­voltage exchanges and an eventual standoff on the newly emergent topics of female sexuality, pornography, and prostitution/sex work. Sex and sexuality arose as an issue within major feminist groups in the early...

... breadwinners of the family, through sex work or dancing.22 Some of the women had worked in other jobs before becoming bar dancers, including domestic work, rag pick- positions 24:1  February 2016 210 ing...

... in fighting the exploitative nature of the Asian sex tour industry. On one level, this mission may be read as a “positive” work- ing together of diverse groups in a coalition to create a “just, participatory and sustainable global...

...- sive trafficking into sex work.”1 In the dominant Philippine — as well as the global — context, the term, however, evokes a much larger scope than sex trafficking, though certainly this subaltern sphere is essentially constitutive...

... the subject/victor assumes the position of a male while the enemy/the defeated is assigned that of a female, just as it bears out the nature of sex work as a positions 17:3  Winter 2009 674 structure of violent power...

... by a pro- found sense of gendered shame surrounding modern sex/domestic work, and she traces the formation of this particular affect to the lingering cul- tural memory of the “bondmaid-­concubine” (beiqie), a base figure sold...

... that organize, enable, or delimit the trade in domestic labor (Nicole Constable, Pei-­Chia Lan), marriage migration (Danièle Bélanger), companionship and romance (Hae Yeon Choo), sex work (Constable), pornographic performance (Celine Parreñas Shimizu...

...-encouraging therapy and part-time sex work.” Photo by Timothy Gitzen. ...

... of Global Sex Work (2015). positions 25:4  doi 10.1215/10679847-4190832 Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press positions 25:4  November 2017 844 Minwoo Jung...

... techniques of rendering Asian women workers as compositional subjects can be veiled or unaccounted for, especially given the intense corporeality of both sex work and assembly-line manufacturing. By restricting my critical readings...