Sexing the Caribbean : gender, race, and sexual labor / by Kamala Kempadoo.

  • Kempadoo, Kamala
Date:
2004
  • Books

About this work

Description

"This unprecedented work provides both the history of sex work in this region as well as an examination of current-day sex tourism. Based on interviews with sex workers, brothel owners, local residents and tourists, Kamala Kempadoo offers a vivid account of what life is like in the world of sex tourism as well as its entrenched roots in colonialism and slavery in the Caribbean." -- From publisher's website.

Publication/Creation

New York ; Abingdon, Great Britain : Routledge, 2004.

Physical description

ix, 272 pages : map ; 24 cm

Contributors

Contents

Introduction : thinking about the Caribbean -- Past studies, new directions : constructions and reconstructions of Caribbean sexuality -- Sex, work, gifts, and money : prostitution and other sexual-economic transactions -- The happy camp in Curaçao : legal sex work and the making of the "SanDom" -- For love or money? Fantasies and realities in sex tourism -- Trading sex across borders : interregional and international migration -- Dying for sex : HIV/AIDS and other dangers -- Resistance, rebellion, and futures.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-262) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    TV.71
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0415935032
  • 9780415935036