Sex and Salvation - Imagining the Future in Madagascar

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Cole is associate professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago and the author of Forget Colonialism? Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar. Klappentext As much of the intense political and social changes in Madagascar revolve around urban youth! who view themselves as avatars of modernity! this book argues that traditional social science offers inadequate theorizations of generational change and its contribution to broader cultural historical processes. Zusammenfassung Eager to forge a viable future amid poverty and rising consumerism! many young women in Tamatave entered the sexual economy in hope of finding a European husband. This book chronicles the coming of age of a generation of women in Tamatave in the years that followed Madagascar's economic liberalization.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Cole, Cole Jennifer
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2010
• EAN: 9780226113319
• ISBN: 978-0-226-11331-9
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Madagascar, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Gender studies, gender groups