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Caribbean pleasure industry : tourism, sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic
- Author
- Padilla, Mark, 1969-
- Title
- Caribbean pleasure industry : tourism, sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic / Mark Padilla.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Description
- xvii, 294 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip076/2006039087.html <Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0708/2006039087-d.html <Contributor biographical information> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0708/2006039087-b.html
- Portion of title
- Tourism, sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic
- Series
- Worlds of desire
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-280) and index.
- Contents
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- Global sexual spaces and their hierarchies
- "Me la busco" : looking for life in the Dominican pleasure industry
- "Orgullo gay Dominicano": shifting cultural politics of sexual identity in Santo Domingo
- Familial discretions : unveiling the other side of sex work
- "Love," finance, and authenticity in gay sex tourism
- AIDS, the "bisexual bridge," and the political economy of risk in the Dominican Republic
- Conclusion
- Appendix: selected survey results.
- Kinsey subjects
- Prostitution--Dominican Republic. AIDS--Dominican Republic. Gender role identification--Dominican Republic.
- ISBN
- 9780226644356 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226644363 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226644359 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226644367 (pbk. : alk. paper)