The global political economy of sex : desire, violence, and insecurity in Mediterranean nation states / Anna M. Agathangelou.
"Promised opportunities in the era of globalization, female laborers migrate to peripheral economies and wind up working for cheap wages or being "traded" licitly and illicitly for cash and remittances. This book examines the movement of domestic and sex workers to Cyprus, Greece, and...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2004.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "Promised opportunities in the era of globalization, female laborers migrate to peripheral economies and wind up working for cheap wages or being "traded" licitly and illicitly for cash and remittances. This book examines the movement of domestic and sex workers to Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey and demonstrates that gender, race (ethnicity), and nationality are crucial elements in the constitution of the desire economies which are informed by the dominant neoliberal understanding of globalization and its neocolonial logic: the desire for power and security, and the drive to consume the labor and bodies of the Other."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 214 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-206) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0312294662 9780312294663 |