Recent debates in transnational feminism, have examined the different aspects of power and privilege that are interconnected in the issue of sexual labor. Linking sex worker to the New Economy, as some critics do, offers a more stratified look at the women who are "working" in the global sex industry. This shift in emphasis also diverts the interest of investigation away from the women who participate in the global sex industry and focuses on the social and economic circumstances (including global capitalism and militarism) that frame the sex market. Set in a military town in the aftermath of the Korean War, Nora Okja Keller`s novel Fox Girl depicts prostitution from different angles, ranging from forced sexual labor and the anticipated marriage proposal by American GIs that Korean women wish for on the one hand to the claim to power and agency articulated through the subversive use of sexuality on the other. Keller does not depict the women solely as victims of sexual exploitation but as agents within the global interconnectedness of gender and economy. Fox Girl links transnational sexual labor and discourses of American exceptionalism, thereby raising issues about the validity of the American Dream in the US and abroad.