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Writing the Body: Transnational Sex

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Book cover Political Economy, Power and the Body

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This chapter pursues the missing body in IR and GPE, and particularized representations of bodies which become visible in some kinds of international relations, including in international sex tourism. It does so by arguing the importance of sexual servicing in the global economy, and tracks the commodification of different types of bodies with differentiated power relations in exchanges of sex for money.

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Pettman, J.J. (2000). Writing the Body: Transnational Sex. In: Youngs, G. (eds) Political Economy, Power and the Body. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333983904_4

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