Sexing the Caribbean : Gender, Race and Sexual Labor.

By: Kempadoo, KamalaMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: London : Routledge, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (283 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203338087Subject(s): Postcolonialism - Caribbean areaGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sexing the Caribbean : Gender, Race and Sexual LaborDDC classification: 306.7/09729 LOC classification: HQ160 -- .K45 2004ebOnline resources: Click to View
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Summary: The primary focus of the book is to illuminate intersections of gender, sexuality, work, race and economic relations in the Caribbean. A central focus is on the social construction of prostitution and other types of transactional sexual relations that many women, and increasingly more young men, are engaged in. Sex tourism, migrant sex work, HIV/AIDS, and legalized prostitution are topics that are examined alongside sex workers agency, resistance and organization. This book challenges conceptions of prostitution as, exclusively, a form of violence to women, and argues that sexual-economic relations can be sites of both oppression and liberation. It sheds light on aspects of women's lives and of the Caribbean that are widely know to exist, but which have not been documented or analyzed in any extent in social studies.
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The primary focus of the book is to illuminate intersections of gender, sexuality, work, race and economic relations in the Caribbean. A central focus is on the social construction of prostitution and other types of transactional sexual relations that many women, and increasingly more young men, are engaged in. Sex tourism, migrant sex work, HIV/AIDS, and legalized prostitution are topics that are examined alongside sex workers agency, resistance and organization. This book challenges conceptions of prostitution as, exclusively, a form of violence to women, and argues that sexual-economic relations can be sites of both oppression and liberation. It sheds light on aspects of women's lives and of the Caribbean that are widely know to exist, but which have not been documented or analyzed in any extent in social studies.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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