Transnational Feminist Framework

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a) This article expands off the argument that the global sex trade cannot be simply reduced to one monolithic explanation of violence to women. Research and theorizing requires a framework that embraces global relations of power. This article also focuses on experiences of, and definitions by, women of color, tracing contours of what may be named a “transnational feminist” framework. A very important part of this reading is how it aims to bring tother and circulate ideas/knowledge produced by, as well as about women of color in the global sex trade and to make explicit the framework that underpins this current trend of feminist theorizing. Another important part of this reading is the discussion that these experiences of women of color in the

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