Considers the role of beauty in Costa Rican sex work. While Costa Rica's national mythology has long focused on claims to white origins, sex tourists identify local women's ‘exoticism’ and non-whiteness as particularly appealing. Explores how women experience and manage their sexual attractiveness to foreign tourists in their daily lives and work.
190 p., Reviews legislation and government policy related to combating human trafficking in eight Caribbean countries: The Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, the Netherlands Antilles, St Lucia, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.NBThis review has assessed the applicability of existing statute law for the prosecution of human traffickers, the protection of trafficking victims and the prevention of trafficking activities. This includes criminal provisions that constitute one or more elements of the trafficking process such as procurement, forced detention, prostitution, sexual offences, kidnapping, abduction and other offences against the person. These elements can then be used in combination as a "patchwork" replacement for a trafficking law.
McCabe,Kimberly A. (Editor) and Manian,Sabita (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
188 p., In Sex Trafficking: A Global Perspective, sex trafficking is discussed in terms of its multiple purposes and its victims. Includes Brad Bullock's "Sex traffic and trafficking in the Caribbean."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
218 p., Based on ten years of research, Economies of Desire is the first ethnographic study to examine the erotic underpinnings of transnational tourism. It offers startling insights into the commingling of sex, intimacy, and market forces in Cuba and the Dominican Republic, two nations where tourism has had widespread effects. In her multi-layered analyses, Amalia Cabezas reconceptualizes our understandings of informal economies (particularly "affective economies"), "sex workers," and "sexual tourism," and she helps us appreciate how money, sex and love are intertwined within the structure of globalizing capitalism.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
291 p, Discusses the issues of prostitution in the Caribbean; Research project coorindated by the Women's Studies Program at the University of Colorado-Boulder, the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action(CAFRA) and Instituto Latinoamericano de Servicios Legales Alternativos(ILSA)./ Includes bibliographical references.
