Denise Brennan

What's Love Got to Do with It?

Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic

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Produktbeschreibung

An ethnographic case study of sex tourism in the Dominican Republic, showing how the sex trade is linked to economic and cultural globalization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 151mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780822332596
• ISBN-10: 0822332590
• Artikelnr.: 22196808

Autorenporträt

Denise Brennan is Professor and Chair of Anthropology and Sociology at Georgetown University.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Series ix
Acknowledgments
> Introduction: Elena and Jurgen 1
I. The Town
1. Sosua: A Transnational Tow 13
2. Imagining and Experiencing Sosua
> II. The Transnational Plan: Looking Beyond Dominican Borders
3. Performing Love 91
III. The Sex Trade
> 4. Sosua’s Sex Workers: Their Families and Working Lives 119
5. Advancement Strategies in Sosua’s Sex Trade
> IV. Plan Accomplished: Getting Beyond Dominican Borders
6. Transnational Disappointments: Living in Europe 185
Conclusion: Changes in Sex Workers’ Lives, Sosua, and Its Sex Trade 207
Notes 221
Glossary
> Bibliography 249
Index 273