This unprecedented work provides both the history of sex work in this region as well as an examination of current-day sex tourism. Based on interviews with sex workers, brothel owners, local residents and tourists, Kamala Kempadoo offers a vivid account of what life is like in the world of sex tourism as well as its entrenched roots in colonialism and slavery in the Caribbean.
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Kamala Kempadoo is a Professor at York University in Ontario. She was the Acting Director and Lecturer at the Centre for Gender and Development Studies at the University of West Indies--Mona in Jamaica. She is the editor of Global Sex Workers (Routledge, 1998) and Sun, Sex and Gold (1999).
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The Caribbean has long been portrayed in the global imagination as an exotic, resource-filled region of the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
female sex tourism, sex working women, transactional sex, informal polygyny, male sex work, sex worker organizations, global sex trade, female commercial sex workers, romance tourism, suitcase traders, sexual labor, prostitution activities, tourist women, sexual agency, women tourists, sex tourists, sex houses, female tourists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dominican Republic, Campo Alegre, United States, Red Thread, Western European, Dutch Caribbean, North American, Latin America, Puerto Rico, African Caribbean, Dutch Antillian, English-speaking Caribbean, Department of Public Health, League of Nations, Santo Domingo, Dutch Antillean, Anglophone Caribbean, Netherlands Antilles, Roman Catholic Church, Black Power, Immigration Service, New World Negro, Spanish-speaking Caribbean, Special Rapporteur New!
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The Caribbean has long been portrayed in the global imagination as an exotic, resource-filled region of the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
female sex tourism, sex working women, transactional sex, informal polygyny, male sex work, sex worker organizations, global sex trade, female commercial sex workers, romance tourism, suitcase traders, sexual labor, prostitution activities, tourist women, sexual agency, women tourists, sex tourists, sex houses, female tourists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dominican Republic, Campo Alegre, United States, Red Thread, Western European, Dutch Caribbean, North American, Latin America, Puerto Rico, African Caribbean, Dutch Antillian, English-speaking Caribbean, Department of Public Health, League of Nations, Santo Domingo, Dutch Antillean, Anglophone Caribbean, Netherlands Antilles, Roman Catholic Church, Black Power, Immigration Service, New World Negro, Spanish-speaking Caribbean, Special Rapporteur New!
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- Sun, Sex, and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean by Kamala Kempadoo on 13 pages
- Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition by Kamala Kempadoo on 10 pages
- Caribbean Sociology: Introductory Readings by Rhoda Reddock on 5 pages
- Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus (Institute for Adminstrative Officers of Higher Ins) by Rene Jara on 5 pages
- Caribbean Sociology by Christine Barrow on 5 pages
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