What’s Love Got to Do with It?: Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic
- ISBN-10
- 0822385406
- ISBN-13
- 9780822385400
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 293
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004-04-23
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Author
- Denise Brennan
Description
In locations around the world, sex tourism is a booming business. What's Love Got to Do with It? is an in-depth examination of the motivations of workers, clients, and others connected to the sex tourism business in Sosúa, a town on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic. Denise Brennan considers why Dominican and Haitian women move to Sosúa to pursue sex work and describes how sex tourists, primarily Europeans, come to Sosúa to buy sex cheaply and live out racialized fantasies. For the sex workers, Brennan explains, the sex trade is more than a means of survival—it is an advancement strategy that hinges on their successful “performance” of love. Many of these women seek to turn a commercialized sexual transaction into a long-term relationship that could lead to marriage, migration, and a way out of poverty. Illuminating the complex world of Sosúa’s sex business in rich detail, Brennan draws on extensive interviews not only with sex workers and clients, but also with others who facilitate and benefit from the sex trade. She weaves these voices into an analysis of Dominican economic and migration histories to consider the opportunities—or lack thereof—available to poor Dominican women. She shows how these women, local actors caught in a web of global economic relations, try to take advantage of the foreign men who are in Sosúa to take advantage of them. Through her detailed study of the lives and working conditions of the women in Sosúa’s sex trade, Brennan raises important questions about women’s power, control, and opportunities in a globalized economy.
Get the book
Similar books
-
What's Love Got to Do With It?: Understanding and Healing the Rift Between Black Men and Women
By Donna FranklinFocuses on the subject of gender relations in black America, taking a look at domestic violence, divorce rates, and damaging gender stereotypes.
-
What's Love Got to Do with It?
By Meredith SmallThese are but a few of the questions that anthropologist Meredith Small explores in her compelling book on human mating, What's Love Got to Do with It?
-
What's Love Got to Do with It?: Emotions and Relationships in Pop Songs
By Thomas J. ScheffWhat do pop songs have to say about love? Surprisingly, this book shows that most popular love songs express much more about alienation, infatuation, estrangement, jealousy, and heartbreak than about love.
-
I, Tina: My Life Story
By Tina Turner, Kurt LoderThis book is a superstar's honest and intimate account of struggle and pain, love and abuse, glory and tragedy, and one of the greatest comebacks in music history.
-
My Love Story
By Tina TurnerEmphatically showcasing Tina’s signature blend of strength, energy, heart, and soul, this is a gorgeously wrought memoir as enthralling and moving as any of her greatest hits.
-
A Networked Self and Love
By Zizi PapacharissiWe fall in love every day, with others, with ideas, with ourselves. Stories of love excite us and baffle us. This volume is about love and the networked self. It focuses on how love forms, grows, or dissolves.
-
What's Love Got to Do with It?: Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic
By Denise BrennanDIVAn ethnographic case study of sex tourism in the Dominican Republic, showing how the sex trade is linked to economic and cultural globalization./div "In this finely hued ethnography, Denise Brennan questions how transnationalization gets ...
-
What's Love Got to Do with It?: A Critical Look at American Charity
By David Wagner" What's Love Got to Do with It? is an insightful debunking of the way charitable giving disguises American neglect of the public welfare.
-
How to Talk with Your Kids about Sex: Help Your Children Develop a Positive, Healthy Attitude Toward Sex and Relationships
By Dr. John ChirbanRemember that no one figures out meaningful relationships on a first date! Often what we look back on as superficial qualities or attractions were what led to accepting or initiating the date in the first place.
-
What's Love Got to Do with It?
By Danielle ShawWhat's Love Got to Do with It?