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6. Transnational Media Wars over Sex Trafficking

Abolishing the “New Slave Trade” or the New Nativism?

Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel

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Circuits of Visibility

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© 2020 New York University Press, New York, USA

Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Contents v
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
I. Configuring Visibilities
1. Seeing Princess Salma 21
2. Constructing Transnational Divas 35
3. The Gendered Face of Latinidad 53
4. E-Race-ing Color 68
5. Gendered Blueprints 89
6. Transnational Media Wars over Sex Trafficking 103
7. “Recycling” Heroines in France 124
8. Celebrity Travels 140
III. Capital Trails
9. Objects of Knowledge, Subjects of Consumption 159
10. Spaces of Exception 178
11. Maid as Metaphor 196
12. Dial “C” for Culture 212
IV. Technologies of Control
13. Digital Cosmopolitanisms 231
14. Doing Cultural Citizenship in the Global Media Hub 250
15. Gendering Cyberspace 268
16. Ladies and Gentlemen, Boyahs and Girls 284
About the Contributors 303
Index 309

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814737309.003.0006

Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Contents v
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
I. Configuring Visibilities
1. Seeing Princess Salma 21
2. Constructing Transnational Divas 35
3. The Gendered Face of Latinidad 53
4. E-Race-ing Color 68
5. Gendered Blueprints 89
6. Transnational Media Wars over Sex Trafficking 103
7. “Recycling” Heroines in France 124
8. Celebrity Travels 140
III. Capital Trails
9. Objects of Knowledge, Subjects of Consumption 159
10. Spaces of Exception 178
11. Maid as Metaphor 196
12. Dial “C” for Culture 212
IV. Technologies of Control
13. Digital Cosmopolitanisms 231
14. Doing Cultural Citizenship in the Global Media Hub 250
15. Gendering Cyberspace 268
16. Ladies and Gentlemen, Boyahs and Girls 284
About the Contributors 303
Index 309

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