Sex Work in Southeast Asia: The Place of Desire in a Time of AIDS

ISBN-13: 9780415510691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 158 str.

Lisa Law

Opis

This is a cultural critique of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes targeting sex tourism industries in Southeast Asia. It highlights how feminist and postcolonial politics shape practices of global AIDS prevention.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Rethinking the prostitute subject: bodies, subjectivity and space 3. Cartographies of desire: mapping Southeast Asian sex industries 4. Negotiating the bar: sex, money and the uneasy politics of third space 5. Beyond the bar: lives, community and transient identities 6. Sex work, HIV/AIDS and blame: mandatory HIV antibody testing 7. Prostitute victim/sex worker agent: the global discourse of NGOs 8. Conclusion

O autorze

Lisa Law is Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the Gender Relations Project, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra.