Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race and Sexual Labor

ISBN-13: 9780415935036 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 282 str.

Kamala Kempadoo

Opis

The primary focus of the book is to illuminate intersections of gender, sexuality, work, race and economic relations in the Caribbean.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).