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Informationen zum Autor DEBRA CURTIS is an assistant professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at Salve Regina University in Rhode Island. Klappentext Pleasures and Perils follows a group of young girls living on Nevis, an island society in the Eastern Caribbean. Curtis shows that girls are often caught between conflicting discourses of Christian teachings about chastity, public health cautions about safe sex, and media enticements about consumer delights. Sexuality's contradictions are exposed: power and powerless-ness, self-determination and cultural control, violence and pleasure. Zusammenfassung Follows a group of young girls living on Nevis! an island society in the Eastern Caribbean. This title shows that girls are often caught between conflicting discourses of Christian teachings about chastity! public health cautions about safe sex! and media enticements about consumer delights. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Globalizing Nevis: Radical Shifts from Subsistence to Consumerism 3. Competing Discourses and Moralities at Play 4. Consuming Global Scripts: Media, Sex, and Desire 5. The State and Sexualities 6. Rethinking Sexual-Economic Exchange 7. Theorizing Sexual Pleasure 8. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
