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Autore: |
Hoefinger Heidi
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Titolo: |
Sex, love and money in Cambodia : professional girlfriends and transactional relationships / / Heidi Hoefinger
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Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.7409596 |
Soggetto topico: | Prostitution - Cambodia |
Sex customs - Cambodia | |
Interpersonal relations - Cambodia | |
Soggetto geografico: | Cambodia Social life and customs |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Sex, love and money in Cambodia ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-317-93124-6 |
1-138-84323-7 | |
0-203-55078-1 | |
1-317-93123-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910779743403321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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