| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 207 pages) : map |
| Series |
National Women's Studies Associaton/University of Illinois first book prize |
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National Women's Studies Association/University of Illinois first book prize.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 transnational relationships. The author explores sex tourism in the Brazilian state of Bahia from the perspectives of foreign tourists, tourism industry workers, sex workers who engage in liaisons with foreigners, and Afro-Brazilian men and women who contend with foreigners' stereotypical assumptions about their licentiousness. She shows how the Bahian state strategically exploits the touristic desire for exotic culture by appropriating an eroticized Blackness and commodifying the Afro-Brazilian culture in order to sell Bahia to foreign travelers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-199) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR, viewed August 20, 2021) |
| Subject |
Sex tourism -- Brazil -- Bahia (State)
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Sex tourism -- Brazil -- Salvador
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Sex tourism -- Social aspects -- Brazil -- Bahia (State)
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Sex tourism -- Social aspects -- Brazil -- Salvador
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Prostitutes -- Brazil -- Bahia (State)
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Prostitutes -- Brazil -- Salvador
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Prostitution -- Social aspects -- Brazil -- Bahia (State)
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Prostitution -- Social aspects -- Brazil -- Salvador
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Social conditions
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Prostitution -- Social aspects
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Prostitutes
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Sex tourism
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| SUBJECT |
Bahia (Brazil : State) -- Social conditions
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Salvador (Brazil) -- Social conditions
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| Subject |
Brazil -- Bahia (State)
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Brazil -- Salvador
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019717336 |
| ISBN |
9780252095191 |
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0252095197 |
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