Sex Work in Southeast Asia - The Place of Desire in a Time of Aids

Informationen zum Autor Lisa Law is Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the Gender Relations Project, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. Klappentext Southeast Asian sex workers are stereotypically understood as passive victims of the political economy, and submissive to western men. The advent of HIV/AIDS only compounds this image. Sex Work in Southeast Asia is a cultural critique of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes targetting sex tourism industries in Southeast Asia. Zusammenfassung This cultural critique of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes targetting sex tourism industries in Southeast Asia posits a new place for a speaking sex worker subject. Provides vital up-to-date research for scholars in many disciplines. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Rethinking the prostitute subject: bodies, subjectivity and space 3. Cartographies of desire: mapping Southeast Asian sex industries 4. Negotiating the bar: sex, money and the uneasy politics of third space 5. Beyond the bar: lives, community and transient identities 6. Sex work, HIV/AIDS and blame: mandatory HIV antibody testing 7. Prostitute victim/sex worker agent: the global discourse of NGOs 8. Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Law, Law Lisa
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.11.2011
• EAN: 9780415510691
• ISBN: 978-0-415-51069-1
• No. of pages: 158
• Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Asian History, Human Geography, Tourism industry, Retail and wholesale industries, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General