Sex tourism in Bahia : ambiguous entanglements / Erica Lorraine Williams.

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For nearly a decade, Brazil has surpassed Thailand as the world's premier sex tourism destination. As the first full-length ethnography of sex tourism in Brazil, this pioneering study treats sex tourism as a complex and multidimensional phenomenon that involves a range of activities and erotic conne...

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Main Author: Williams, Erica Lorraine (Author)
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Sex tourism > Brazil > Bahia (State)
Sex tourism > Brazil > Salvador.
Sex tourism > Social aspects > Brazil > Bahia (State)
Sex tourism > Social aspects > Brazil > Salvador.
Prostitutes > Brazil > Bahia (State)
Prostitutes > Brazil > Salvador.
Prostitution > Social aspects > Brazil > Bahia (State)
Prostitution > Social aspects > Brazil > Salvador.
Bahia (Brazil : State) > Social conditions.
Salvador (Brazil) > Social conditions.
Physical Description:xii, 207 pages : map ; 23 cm
Format: Book
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.