Brennan / Mignolo / Silverblatt What's Love Got to Do with It?

Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8540-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 293 Seiten

Reihe: Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

An ethnographic case study of sex tourism in the Dominican Republic, showing how the sex trade is linked to economic and cultural globalization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brennan, Denise

Mignolo, Walter D.

Silverblatt, Irene

Saldívar-Hull, Sonia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Series ix

Acknowledgments
xi

Introduction: Elena and Jurgen 1

I. The Town

1. Sosua: A Transnational Tow 13

2. Imagining and Experiencing Sosua
51

II. The Transnational Plan: Looking Beyond Dominican Borders

3. Performing Love 91

III. The Sex Trade

4. Sosua’s Sex Workers: Their Families and Working Lives 119

5. Advancement Strategies in Sosua’s Sex Trade
154

IV. Plan Accomplished: Getting Beyond Dominican Borders

6. Transnational Disappointments: Living in Europe 185

Conclusion: Changes in Sex Workers’ Lives, Sosua, and Its Sex Trade 207

Notes 221

Glossary
245

Bibliography 249

Index 273

Über Autor(innen)

Denise Brennan is Professor and Chair of Anthropology and Sociology at Georgetown University.