ISBN:
9780415629348
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (229 p)
Series Statement:
The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia
Series Statement:
The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia : Professional Girlfriends and Transactional Relationships
DDC:
306.7409596
Keywords:
Interpersonal relations - Cambodia
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Dealing with the complex and discomforting 'grey 'area where sex, love and money collide, this book highlights the general materiality of everyday sex that takes place in all relationships. In doing so, it draws attention to and destigmatizes the transactional elements within many 'normative' partnerships - be they transnational, inter-ethnic or otherwise.Focusing on Cambodia, and on a subculture of young women employed in the tourist bar scene referred to as 'professional girlfriends', the book shows that the resulting transnational relationships between Cambodian women and t
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1 Professional girlfriends and transactional sex; 2 Methods, ethics and intimate ethnography; 3 Sex, work and agency; 4 Politics, history and the sexual landscape; 5 Sexuality, subculture and alternative kinship; 6 Constructions of love and the materiality of everyday sex; 7 Moving beyond sex work; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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