Dealing in desire : Asian ascendancy, Western decline, and the hidden currencies of global sex work /

"This fascinating ethnography examines one segment of Vietnam's diverse sex industry. Between 2006 and 2010, author Kimberly Kay Hoang was employed at four exclusive Saigon hostess bars catering to high-end clientele: wealthy Asian businessmen, Western expatriates and tourists, local Vietn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hoang, Kimberly Kay (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Temas:
Sex industry > Vietnam.
Industrie pornographique > Viêt-nam.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Sex industry.
Unterhaltungsindustrie
Prostitution
Nachtklub
Männlichkeit
Sozioökonomischer Wandel
Soziokultureller Wandel
Doi-Moi-Reform
Vietnam.
Vietnam
Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : dealing in desire
  • Sex in HCMC 1867-present
  • The contemporary sex industry
  • New hierarchies of global men
  • Entrepreneurial mommies
  • Autonomy and consent in sex work
  • Constructing desirable bodies
  • Sex workers economic trajectories
  • Conclusion : faltering assent
  • Appendix : the research and embodied costs of ethnography.

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