Sexing the Caribbean : Gender, Race and Sexual Labor

Kempadoo, Kamala

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Publisher's Synopsis

This unprecedented work provides both the history of sex work in this region as well as an examination of current-day sex tourism. Based on interviews with sex workers, brothel owners, local residents and tourists, Kamala Kempadoo offers a vivid account of what life is like in the world of sex tourism as well as its entrenched roots in colonialism and slavery in the Caribbean.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780415935036
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	16 Sep 2004
DEWEY:	306.709729
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	272
Weight:	590g
Height:	236mm
Width:	157mm
Spine width:	24mm