id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_hofd7nghjng3llmipw6iax7s7m Cymene Howe Transnationalizing Desire: Sexualizing Culture and Commodifying Sexualities 2009 8 .pdf application/pdf 4064 314 50 We explore how various forms of sexuality and desire inform national identities, the new forms of intimacy, politics and ways of understanding sexuality. work (Brennan 2004; Chernoff 2003; Frank 2002) and claims of sexual subjectivity and the right Diasporas of sexual cultures, such as lesbian and gay rights movements, transnational protect the sexual sanctity of the nation's women and children from 'imperial' or 'western' The global emergence of movements based on sexual rights, including those of women sexuality and the policing of propriety in the name of family, God, culture and nation. their sexuality, drawn from transnational discourses of women's rights, become framed as detrimental to the nation's right to cultural and political autonomy. The transnationalization of desire and the global emergence of 'sexuality', semiotically surrounding sexuality suggest that intersecting moral, cultural, and political priorities challenge borders between the 'local' and the 'global,' so too do sexuality and desire illustrate the intimate ./cache/work_hofd7nghjng3llmipw6iax7s7m.pdf ./txt/work_hofd7nghjng3llmipw6iax7s7m.txt