Sex tourism in Bahia : ambiguous entanglements /

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Brazil has surpassed Thailand as the world's premier sex tourism destination. As a full-length ethnography of sex tourism in Brazil, this study treats sex tourism as a complex and multidimensional phenomenon that involves a range of activities and erotic connections, from sex work to romantic t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Williams, Erica Lorraine (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
Series:National Women's Studies Association/University of Illinois first book prize.
Subjects:
Sex tourism > Brazil > Bahia (State)
Sex tourism > Brazil > Salvador.
Sex tourism > Social aspects > Brazil > Bahia (State)
Sex tourism > Social aspects > Brazil > Salvador.
Prostitutes > Brazil > Bahia (State)
Prostitutes > Brazil > Salvador.
Prostitution > Social aspects > Brazil > Bahia (State)
Prostitution > Social aspects > Brazil > Salvador.
Tourisme sexuel > Brésil > Bahia (État)
Tourisme sexuel > Brésil > Salvador.
Tourisme sexuel > Aspect social > Brésil > Bahia (État)
Tourisme sexuel > Aspect social > Brésil > Salvador.
Prostituées > Brésil > Bahia (État)
Prostituées > Brésil > Salvador.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Social conditions
Prostitution > Social aspects
Prostitutes
Sex tourism
Bahia (Brazil : State) > Social conditions.
Salvador (Brazil) > Social conditions.
Bahia (Brésil : État) > Conditions sociales.
Brazil > Bahia (State)
Brazil > Salvador
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Geographies of Blackness : tourism and the erotics of Black culture in Salvador
  • Racial hierarchies of desire and the specter of sex tourism
  • Working-class kings in paradise : coming to terms with sex tourism
  • Tourist tales and erotic adventures
  • Aprosba : the politics of race, sexual labor, and identification
  • Se valorizando (valuing oneself) : ambiguity, exploitation, and cosmopolitanism
  • Moral panics : sex tourism, trafficking, and the limits of transnational mobility
  • Conclusion : the specter of sex tourism in a globalized world.

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