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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958646803321

Autore

Williams Erica Lorraine

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, Illinois : , : University of Illinois Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

9780252095191

0252095197

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

National women's studies association/university of Illinois press first book prize

Disciplina

306.74

Soggetti

Tourism - Brazil - Bahia (State)

Brazil 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""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1. Geographies of Blackness""; ""Chapter 2. Racial Hierarchies of Desire and the Specter of Sex Tourism""; ""Chapter 3.  Working-Class Kings in Paradise""; ""Chapter 4. Tourist Tales and Erotic Adventures""; ""Chapter 5. Aprosba""; ""Chapter 6. Se Valorizando (Valuing Oneself)""; ""Chapter 7. Moral Panics""; ""Conclusion. The Specter of Sex Tourism in a Globalized World""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

This pioneering study treats sex tourism as a complex and multidimensional phenomenon that involves a range of activities and erotic connections, from sex work to romantic transnational relationships.