Sexing the Caribbean Gender, Race and Sexual Labor

Name: Sexing the Caribbean Gender, Race and Sexual Labor
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ISBN: 9780415935043

ISBN-10: 0415935040

ISBN-13: 9780415935043

Edition: 2004

Authors: Kamala Kempadoo

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The primary focus of the book is to illuminate intersections of gender, sexuality, work, race and economic relations in the Caribbean. A central focus is on the social construction of prostitution and other types of transactional sexual relations that many women, and increasingly more young men, are engaged in. Sex tourism, migrant sex work, HIV/AIDS, and legalized prostitution are topics that are examined alongside sex workers agency, resistance and organization. This book challenges conceptions of prostitution as, exclusively, a form of violence to women, and argues that sexual-economic relations can be sites of both oppression and liberation. It sheds light on aspects of women's lives…

Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/22/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.06" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Acknowledgements



Introduction: Thinking about the Caribbean



Past Studies, New Directions: Constructions and Reconstructions of Caribbean Sexuality



Sex, Work, Gifts, and Money: Prostitution and Other Sexual-economic Transactions



The Happy Camp in Curacao: Legal Sex Work and the Making of the ASanDom@



For Love or Money? Fantasies and Realities in Sex Tourism



Trading Sex Across Borders: Interregional and International Migration



Dying for Sex: HIV/AIDS and Other Dangers



Resistance, Rebellion, and Futures


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