@article{ref1,
title="Sexual trafficking in women: international political economy and the politics of sex",
journal="Gender issues",
year="2000",
author="Bertone, A. M.",
volume="18",
number="1",
pages="4-22",
abstract="A recent manifestation of the North/South, East/West political-economic divide is the international sex trade in women, of which trafficking in women for purposes of sexual employment is a large subset. Trafficking in humans in general, and women in particular, has taken center stage in many nation-states as an issue of a threat to national security and societal cohesion. This article explores some of the basic facts about trafficking and spotlights it as a truly global phenomenon, with its contemporary origins in the international capitalist market system. Furthermore, it argues that the international political economy of sex not only includes the supply side--the women of the third world, the poor states, or exotic Asian women--but it cannot maintain itself without the demand from the organizers of the trade--the men from industrialized and developing countries. The patriarchal world system hungers for and sustains the international subculture of docile women from underdeveloped nations. Keywords: Human trafficking<p />",
language="en",
issn="1098-092X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}