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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814147103321

Autore

Hoefinger Heidi

Titolo

Sex, love and money in Cambodia : professional girlfriends and transactional relationships / / Heidi Hoefinger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-317-93124-6

1-138-84323-7

0-203-55078-1

1-317-93123-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

Modern anthropology of South-East Asia

Disciplina

306.7409596

Soggetti

Prostitution - Cambodia

Sex customs - Cambodia

Interpersonal relations - Cambodia

Cambodia Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1 Professional girlfriends and transactional sex; 2 Methods, ethics and intimate ethnography; 3 Sex, work and agency; 4 Politics, history and the sexual landscape; 5 Sexuality, subculture and alternative kinship; 6 Constructions of love and the materiality of everyday sex; 7 Moving beyond sex work; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

<P>Dealing with the complex and discomforting 'grey 'area where sex, love and money collide, this book highlights the general materiality of everyday sex that takes place in all relationships. In doing so, it draws attention to and destigmatizes the transactional elements within many 'normative' partnerships - be they transnational, inter-ethnic or otherwise.</P><P></P><P>Focusing on Cambodia, and on a subculture of young women employed in the tourist bar scene referred to as 'professional girlfriends', the book shows that the resulting transnational relationships between Cambodian women and t