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It is the double-bind of the border — as matter and metaphor — that accompanies the travels of feminist ideas and politics across time and place.1 While on the one hand this travel can be a form of transcendence, where struggles in disparate locations gain strength through building friendship and solidarity across borders, at the same time, ideas that can travel because of the historical privilege they carry can, in fact, exacerbate experiences of captivity.
Borders suggest both containment and safety.
(Chandra Talpade Mohanty 2003)
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Dutta, D. (2016). Rethinking Care and Economic Justice with Third-World Sexworkers. In: Harcourt, W. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-38273-3_13
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