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

Informationen zum Autor Denise Brennan is Professor and Chair of Anthropology and Sociology at Georgetown University. Klappentext An ethnographic case study of sex tourism in the Dominican Republic, showing how the sex trade is linked to economic and cultural globalization. Zusammenfassung An ethnographic case study of sex tourism in the Dominican Republic! showing how the sex trade is linked to economic and cultural globalization Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Series ix Acknowledgments>Introduction: Elena and Jurgen 1 I. The Town 1. Sosua: A Transnational Tow 13 2. Imagining and Experiencing Sosua>II. The Transnational Plan: Looking Beyond Dominican Borders 3. Performing Love 91 III. The Sex Trade>4. Sosua’s Sex Workers: Their Families and Working Lives 119 5. Advancement Strategies in Sosua’s Sex Trade>IV. Plan Accomplished: Getting Beyond Dominican Borders 6. Transnational Disappointments: Living in Europe 185 Conclusion: Changes in Sex Workers’ Lives, Sosua, and Its Sex Trade 207 Notes 221 Glossary>Bibliography 249 Index 273

Product details

• Authors: Brennan, Denise Brennan, Denise Brennan
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.05.2004
• EAN: 9780822332596
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3259-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise: Langu; Latin America Otherwise
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Anthropologie, Globalisierung, Dominikanische Republik, Sex und Sexualität, soziale Aspekte