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Sun, Sex, and Gold
Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean
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1999
Summary
With tourism accounting for approximately thirty percent of the Caribbean's GDP and twenty-four percent of employment, a link between the sex trade and the tourism industry has gained recent attention. Shifts in global production, an increase of disposable income for pleasure and recreation, and a desire by North Americans and Europeans for an experience of 'exotic' cultures, are often claimed to be the cause. This volume explores the connections between the global economy and sex work, focusing on the experiences and views of women, men, and children who sell sex. Apart from attention to sex tourism in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Barbados, and Jamaica, the book also examines sex work in the gold mining industry in the hinterlands of Suriname and Guyana, and in the entertainment sector in Belize and the Dutch Antilles. It presents new insights into the Caribbean sex trade and provides proposals and strategies for addressing the situation in the twenty-first century.
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Bibliographic data
Copyright year
1999
ISBN-Print
978-0-8476-9517-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-1000-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
357
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Map No access
1 Continuities and Change: Five Centuries of Prostitution in the Caribbean Kamala Kempadoo No access
2 Fantasy Islands: Exploring the Demand for Sex Tourism Julia O'Connell Davidson and Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor No access
3 Globalization, Tourism, and the International Sex Trade Beverley Mullings No access
4 Back to the Future? Women, Race, and Tourism in Cuba Nadine Fernandez No access
5 Women's Work Is Never Done: Sex Tourism in Sosua, the Dominican Republic Amalia L. Cabezas No access
6 "Come to Jamaica and Feel All Right": Tourism and the Sex Trade Shirley Campbell, Althea Perkins, and Patricia Mohammed No access
7 Bleak Pasts, Bleak Futures: Life Paths of ThirteenYoung Prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia Laura Mayorga and Pilar Velásquez No access
8 Tourist-Oriented Prostitution in Barbados: The Case of the Beach Boy and the White Female Tourist Joan L. Phillips No access
9 Tourism and the Sex Trade in St. Maarten and Curacao, the Netherlands Antilles Jacqueline Martis No access
10 The Muchachas of Orange Walk Town, Belize A. Kathleen Ragsdale and Jessica Tomiko Anders No access
11 Gold and Commercial Sex: Exploring the Link between Small-scale Gold Mining and Commercial Sex in the Rainforest of Suriname Christel C. F. Antonius-Smits, et al No access
12 "Givin' Lil' Bit fuh Lil' Bit": Women and Sex Workin Guyana Red Thread Women's Development Programme No access
13 For the Children: Trends in International Policies and Law on Sex Tourism Kamala Kempadoo and Ranya Ghuma No access
14 A Human Rights Perspective on the Sex Trade in the Caribbean and Beyond Cynthia Mellon No access
Bibliography No access Pages 323 - 344
Index No access Pages 345 - 354
About the Editor and Contributors No access Pages 355 - 357
