ISBN:
9780226644370
,
0226644375
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xvii, 294 p.)
,
ill., map.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Worlds of desire
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Padilla, Mark, 1969- Caribbean pleasure industry
DDC:
306.7662097293
Keywords:
Sex tourism Dominican Republic
;
AIDS (Disease) Dominican Republic
;
Gender identity Dominican Republic
;
AIDS (Disease)
;
Gender identity
;
Sex tourism
;
Sex tourism Dominicaanse Republiek
;
Dominican Republic
;
AIDS (Disease)
;
Gender identity
;
Sex tourism
;
Seksualiteit
;
Toerisme
;
AIDS
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gay Studies
;
Dominican Republic
;
Dominicaanse Republiek
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
In recent years, the economy of the Caribbean has become almost completely dependent on international tourism. And today one of the chief ways that foreign visitors there seek pleasure is through prostitution. While much has been written on the female sex workers who service these tourists, Caribbean Pleasure Industry shifts the focus onto the men. Drawing on his groundbreaking ethnographic research in the Dominican Republic, Mark Padilla discovers a complex world where the global political and economic impact of tourism has led to shifting sexual identities andgrowing economic pressures
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-280) and index. - Description based on print version record
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