One of my favorite theory articles to teach is Gayle Rubin's “The Traffic in Women” (1975), which theorizes the concept of a sex/gender system, founds gender studies, and critically weaves together Marx, Engels, Freud, Lacan, Lévi-Strauss.
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* It has nothing to do with conventional sex trafficking conversations, which Rubin writes about critically in "The Trouble with Trafficking," but rather is all about kinship, gender, and sexuality at large.