Women and Sex Work in Cambodia: Blood, Sweat and Tears

ISBN-13: 9780415681599 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 140 str.

Larissa Sandy

Opis

Prostitution is strongly embedded in local cultural practices in Cambodia. Based on extensive original research, this text explores the nature of prostitution in Cambodia, providing explanations of why the phenomenon is so widely tolerated.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Filles Malades: Sex Work in French Cambodia, 1863-1953 3. Sihanouk’s Thesis ‘A’ and ‘B’: Sex Work in Post-Independence Cambodia 4. The Social and Cultural Context of Sex Work 5. Just Choices: The Moral And Political Economies of Sex Work 6. Core Transmitter/Sex Slave: Ten Years of Regulating Sex Work (1998-2008) 7. Conclusion

O autorze

Larissa Sandy completed her doctorate in the Gender Relations Centre of the Australian National University and is now aVice Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Flinders University, Australia