Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic - Couverture souple

Padilla, Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226644367 ISBN 13 : 9780226644363

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2007

Synopsis

In recent years, the economy of the Caribbean has become almost completely dependent on international tourism. And today one of the chief ways that foreign visitors there seek pleasure is through prostitution. While much has been written on the female sex workers who service these tourists, Caribbean Pleasure Industry shifts the focus onto the men. Drawing on his groundbreaking ethnographic research in the Dominican Republic, Mark Padilla discovers a complex world where the global political and economic impact of tourism has led to shifting sexual identities, growing economic pressures, and new challenges for HIV prevention. In fluid prose, Padilla analyzes men who have sex with male tourists, yet identify themselves as “normal” heterosexual men and struggle to maintain this status within their relationships with wives and girlfriends. Padilla’s exceptional ability to describe the experiences of these men will interest anthropologists, but his examination of bisexuality and tourism as much-neglected factors in the HIV/AIDS epidemic makes this book essential to anyone concerned with health and sexuality in the Caribbean or beyond.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mark Padilla is assistant professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226644367
• ISBN 13: 9780226644363
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 294
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• Personne responsable: non disponible