Bertone A M
Gender Issues. 2000 Winter;18(1):4-22. doi: 10.1007/s12147-999-0020-x.
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.
南北、东西方政治经济分歧的一个最新表现是国际性妇女交易，其中为性工作目的贩卖妇女是一个很大的分支。一般而言的人口贩卖，尤其是妇女贩卖，在许多民族国家已成为一个威胁国家安全和社会凝聚力的问题并占据了中心位置。本文探讨了一些关于贩卖人口的基本事实，并将其作为一种真正的全球现象加以突出，其当代根源在于国际资本主义市场体系。此外，本文认为，性交易的国际政治经济不仅包括供应方——第三世界的妇女、贫穷国家的妇女或具有异域风情的亚洲妇女——而且如果没有交易组织者——工业化国家和发展中国家的男性——的需求，这种交易就无法维持。父权制世界体系渴望并维系着来自欠发达国家温顺妇女的国际亚文化。
