Kamala (Hrsg.) Kempadoo

Sun, Sex, and Gold

Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean

Buch

With tourism accounting for approximately thirty percent of the Caribbean's GDP and twenty-four percent of employment, a link between the sex trade and the tourism industry has gained recent attention. Shifts in global production, an increase of disposable income for pleasure and recreation, and a desire by North Americans and Europeans for an experience of 'exotic' cultures, are often claimed to be the cause. This volume explores the connections between the global economy and sex work, focusing on the experiences and views of women, men, and children who sell sex. Apart from attention to sex tourism in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Barbados,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8476-9517-1
EAN: 9780847695171
Produktnummer: 1500431
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Seitenangabe: 368 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.1 cm 565 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 565

Über den Autor

Kamala Kempadoo is a sociologist and assistant professor of women's studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder. She directed a regional Caribbean research project on tourism and the sex trade, and is editor of Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition.