Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic

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Author: Amalia L. Cabezas

ISBN-10: 1592137504

ISBN-13: 9781592137503

Category: Criminology

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Is a native-born tour guide who has sex with tourists-in exchange for dinner or gifts or cash-merely a prostitute or gigolo? What if the tourist continues to send gifts or ... Biography Amalia L. Cabezas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women's Studies at the University of California, Riverside and co-editor of The Wages of Empire: Neoliberal Policies, Repression and Women's Poverty.

Acknowledgments  Introduction: Affective Economies of Sexualized Tourism  1. Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic  2. Neoliberal Times in Cuba and the Dominican Republic  3. Eroticizing Labor in All-Inclusive Resorts  4. Daughters of Yemayá and Other Luchadoras  5. Tourism, Sex Work, and the Discourse of Human Rights  Epilogue  Notes  References  Index