Globalization, Prostitution and Sex Trafficking: Corporeal Politics

ISBN-13: 9780415599580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 168 str.

Elina Penttinen;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

Drawing on extensive fieldwork on the trafficking of marginalised Russian and Baltic female sex workers, the author demonstrates how the embodiment and reiteration of globalisation on the bodies of gendered individuals are tied to the larger processes of globalisation.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Silent Point of Globalization  2. Bio-power and Subjectivation in the Globalized World-economy of Sex  3. Sexscapes of Globalization: Constructions of Subject and Abject Positions in Landscapes of Globalization  4. Narratives of Embodied Globalization of Russian Prostitutes Working in the Erotic Clubs in Helsinki: Reflections on One Night in Helsinki from the Position of a Whore, a Client and a Researcher  5. Sounds of Silence in Lapland: Narratives of Trafficking in Women across Finnish-Russian and Norwegian Borders  6. 'The Land of Perverts': Domain of Subjectivity from the Position of an Abject to the Global Village: Narratives of Foreign Erotic Dancers in Finland  7. Conclusions: Narratives of Corporeal Politics

O autorze

Elina Penttinen is a postdoctoral researcher at Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI) at the University of Tampere, Finland.