| Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race and Sexual Labor Contributor(s): Kempadoo, Kamala (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415935032 ISBN-13: 9780415935036 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2004 Annotation: The primary focus of the book is to illuminate intersections of gender, sexuality, work, race and economic relations in the Caribbean. A central focus is on the social construction of prostitution and other types of transactional sexual relations that many women, and increasingly more young men, are engaged in. Sex tourism, migrant sex work, HIV/AIDS, and legalized prostitution are topics that are examined alongside sex workers agency, resistance and organization. This book challenges conceptions of prostitution as, exclusively, a form of violence to women, and argues that sexual-economic relations can be sites of both oppression and liberation. It sheds light on aspects of women's lives and of the Caribbean that are widely know to exist, but which have not been documented or analyzed in any extent in social studies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Psychology | Human Sexuality (see Also Social Science - Human Sexuality) - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 306.709 |
| LCCN: 2004006467 |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 6.2" W x 9.28" (1.30 lbs) 282 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |