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Pleasures and Perils : Girls' Sexuality in a Caribbean Consumer Culture /

Pleasures and Perils follows a group of young girls living on Nevis, an island society in the Eastern Caribbean. In this provocative ethnography, Debra Curtis examines their sexuality in gripping detail: why do Nevisian girls engage in sexual activity at such young ages? Where is the line between co...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Curtis, Debra, 1963- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2009.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • Globalizing Nevis : radical shifts from subsistence to consumerism
  • Competing discourses and morality at play
  • Consuming global scripts : media, sex, and desire
  • The state and sexualities
  • Rethinking sexual-economic exchange
  • Theorizing sexual pleasure
  • Conclusion.