What's Love Got to Do with It? : Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic


Denise. Brennan
Bok Engelsk 2004 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
North Carolina : : Duke University Press, , 2004.
Omfang
1 online resource (294 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - CONTENTS; About the Series; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Elena and Jürgen; I The Town; 1. Sosúa: A Transnational Town; 2. Imagining and ExperiencingSosúa; II The Transnational Plan: Looking Beyond Dominican Borders; 3. Performing Love; III The Sex Trade; 4. Sosúa's Sex Workers: Their Familiesand Working Lives; 5. Advancement Strategies in Sosúa'sSex Trade; IV Plan Accomplished: Getting Beyond Dominican Borders; 6. Transnational Disappointments:Living in Europe; Conclusion: Changes in Sex Workers'Lives, Sosúa, and Its Sex Trade,; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index. - An ethnographic case study of sex tourism in the Dominican Republic, showing how the sex trade is linked to economic and cultural globalization.
Emner
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Dewey
ISBN
0822332590. - 0822332973

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