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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
2009.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.


