Intimate Tourism Markets: Money, Gender, and the Complexity of Erotic Exchange in a Costa Rican Caribbean Town

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Frohlick,Susan (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Winter2013
    Published:
    George Washington Institute for Ethnographic Research
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Anthropological Quarterly
    Journal Title Details:
    86(1) : 133-162
    ISBN:
    0003-5491
    Subject Term:
    Caribbean area, Women, Tourism, Costa Rica, travel, Heterosexuals, transnational intimacies, Women's travel, and Sex tourism
    Notes:
    Focuses on American and European tourist women in a transnational town in Atlantic Costa Rica renown for its intimate "vibe" and independent eco-oriented tourist development, where they grappled with the unexpected monetary aspects of intimate relations with Caribbean-Costa Rican men.

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