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The Origin of Queer Theory: Gayle Rubin's "Thinking Sex"

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The White Slave Scare in the United States

Ruben Navarrette: Gayle Rubin says U.S. sex laws are bad because they're like white slave laws in Britain. He says the White Slave Traffic Act was passed in 1910, and every state has anti-prostitution legislation. Navarrette argues that it's a Foucauldian historical or historiographical or archaeological account of just how bad sex law was.

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