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Caribbean pleasure industry : tourism, sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic /
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, Caribbea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Worlds of desire.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 294 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-280) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226644370 0226644375 0226644359 9780226644356 |