Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race and Sexual Labor

by Kamala Kempadoo

Overview

This unprecedented work provides both the history of sex work in this region as well as an examination of current-day sex tourism. Based on interviews with sex workers, brothel owners, local residents and tourists, Kamala Kempadoo offers a vivid account of what life is like in the world of sex tourism as well as its entrenched roots in colonialism and slavery in the Caribbean.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135951597
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/01/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	383 KB

About the Author

Kamala Kempadoo is a Professor at York University in Ontario. She was the Acting Director and Lecturer at the Centre for Gender and Development Studies at the University of West Indies--Mona in Jamaica. She is the editor of Global Sex Workers (Routledge, 1998) and Sun,Sex and Gold (1999).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements1. Introduction: Thinking about the Caribbean2. Past Studies, New Directions: Constructions and Reconstructions of Caribbean Sexuality 3. Sex, Work, Gifts, and Money: Prostitution and Other Sexual-economic Transactions4. The Happy Camp in Curaçao: Legal Sex Work and the Making of the ASanDom@5. For Love or Money? Fantasies and Realities in Sex Tourism 6. Trading Sex Across Borders: Interregional and International Migration7. Dying for Sex: HIV/AIDS and Other Dangers8. Resistance, Rebellion, and FuturesNotesBibliography