Kamala Kempadoo

Sexing the Caribbean (eBook, ePUB)

Gender, Race and Sexual Labor

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This unprecedented work provides both the history of sex work in this region as well as an examination of current-day sex tourism. Based on interviews with sex workers, brothel owners, local residents and tourists, Kamala Kempadoo offers a vivid account of what life is like in the world of sex tourism as well as its entrenched roots in colonialism and slavery in the Caribbean.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135951597
• Artikelnr.: 38265065

Autorenporträt

Kamala Kempadoo is a Professor at York University in Ontario. She was the Acting Director and Lecturer at the Centre for Gender and Development Studies at the University of West Indies--Mona in Jamaica. She is the editor of Global Sex Workers (Routledge, 1998) and Sun,Sex and Gold (1999).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements1. Introduction: Thinking about the Caribbean2. Past
Studies, New Directions: Constructions and Reconstructions of Caribbean
Sexuality 3. Sex, Work, Gifts, and Money: Prostitution and Other
Sexual-economic Transactions4. The Happy Camp in Curaçao: Legal Sex Work
and the Making of the ASanDom@5. For Love or Money? Fantasies and Realities
in Sex Tourism 6. Trading Sex Across Borders: Interregional and
International Migration7. Dying for Sex: HIV/AIDS and Other Dangers8.
Resistance, Rebellion, and FuturesNotesBibliography