<![CDATA[
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>Money, sex, and love: Are they merely "market forces" in transnational tourism?<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781592137497&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1518_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>Economies of Desire</h1>
<H2>Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic</H2>
<h3>Amalia L. Cabezas</h3>
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<BR> 232 pp
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</P><BLOCKQUOTE><I><p>"Economies of Desire<i> is very well written and compelling, drawing us into two historical contexts and illustrating women's agency as they negotiate the
economic, political, and social constraints. Cabezas' many years of field research provide nuance to her analysis, and her critique of the feminist discourse about human rights is completely on target."</i><BR>—<b>Patricia Zavella</b>, Professor of Latin American and
Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz</p></I></BLOCKQUOTE>
<p>Is a native-born tour guide who has sex with tourists—in exchange
for dinner or gifts or cash—merely a prostitute or gigolo? What if the
tourist continues to send gifts or money to the tour guide after
returning home? As this original and provocative book demonstrates,
when it comes to sex—and the effects of capitalism and globalization
—nothing is as simple as it might seem.</p><p>
Based on ten years of research, Economies of Desire is the first
ethnographic study to examine the erotic underpinnings of transnational
tourism. It offers startling insights into the commingling of sex,
intimacy, and market forces in Cuba and the Dominican republic, two
nations where tourism has had widespread effects. In her multi-layered
analyses, amalia cabezas reconceptualizes our understandings of
informal economies (particularly "affective economies"), "sex workers,"
and “sexual tourism,” and she helps us appreciate how money, sex
and love are intertwined within the structure of globalizing capitalism.</p>
<BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p>
<BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P>
<p>Acknowledgments
<br>Introduction: Affective Economies of Sexualized Tourism
<br>1. Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic
<br>2. Neoliberal Times in Cuba and the Dominican Republic
<br>3. Eroticizing Labor in All-Inclusive Resorts
<br>4. Daughters of Yemayá and Other <i>Luchadoras</i>
<br>5. Tourism, Sex Work, and the Discourse of Human Rights
<br>Epilogue
<br>Notes
<br>References
<br>Index
</P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<P><b>Amalia L. Cabezas</b> is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s Studies at the University of California, Riverside
and co-editor of <i>The Wages of Empire: Neoliberal Policies,
Repression and Women’s Poverty</i>.</P>
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<BR><A HREF="/tempress/sociology.html" TARGET="_top">Sociology</a>
<BR><A HREF="/tempress/gender.html" TARGET="_top">Gender Studies</a>
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