Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race and Sexual Labor

ISBN-13: 9780415935043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 288 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

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Thinking about the Caribbean 2. 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).