ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about the ways in which issues of sex and sexuality are taken up in and through international and national legal discourses of 'prostitution' and trafficking. The Department of Health and Human Services has partnered with faith-based and community organisations to form anti-trafficking coalitions in seventeen major cities across our country. Levine's film constitutes part of a well-intentioned liberal initiative to address the issue of trafficking and goad the international community to respond to the issue. The chapter explores the contours of female sexual subjectivity as constituted in and through anti-trafficking interventions in law by both the conservative or religious right, as well as by some feminist and human rights scholars and advocates. In the arena of anti-trafficking laws, Levine's film exemplifies how the colonial past continues to discursively influence the post-colonial present, even in the liberal response.
