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Commentary: Female migrant workers face sexual division of labor

By | Jan 26, 2012

The following is an excerpt from the speech “Gender Trafficking from the Bronx to Jakarta” that Zillah Eisenstein, professor of politics, delivered Jan. 11 as part of a program at the Salihara Cultural Center in Jakarta, Indonesia. Women’s bodies are always busy laboring — in the home, at paid work, making babies, hauling water, collecting…