To browse Academia. Sealing Cheng. This article examines the paradoxes of neoliberalism through two migrant sex workers' negotiation of the transnational disciplinary regimes of morality, national security, and humanitarianism. We take as our point of departure their active resistance to the label of " victims of sex trafficking. We argue that global anti-trafficking initiatives as they have taken shape in the twenty-first century are part of neoliberal governance. The women's sexual labor subjects them to the scrutiny and penalty of the state.
Yet they see themselves as self-sufficient, self-responsible, and self-enterprising individuals. Juxtaposing these women's self-making projects with the transnational state apparatus to combat " sex trafficking, " we gain insights into how individual pursuits and state practices intersect at this neoliberal moment— despite their different purposes. Matthias Lehmann.
South Korea introduced a raft of new laws against sex work in These repressive policies are now up for constitutional review due to the intense reaction by sex workers there. Edited by Giulia Garofalo Geymonat and P. Who listens? Ewa Wrochna. Travis S K Kong.
This article seeks to investigate the complexity of the working experiences of female prostitutes in Hong Kong, using an oral history approach. This allows them to create their own space to work and survive.
Agata Ewa Wrochna. This article examines the recent South Korean sex comedy Casa Amor: Exclusive for Ladies, in an attempt to contextualise representations of female sexuality within the socio-geographic discourse. At the same time, it aims to demonstrate the ways in which ideals of the third wave feminist thought are employed in order to first seemingly promote, but ultimately trivialise and discount the experience of female sexuality.
