Sex Work in Southeast Asia
The Place of Desire in a Time of AIDS
Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 22 June 2000
- ISBN 9780415218054
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages158 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 450 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 Tables, black & white 0
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Short description:
This cultural critique of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes targetting sex tourism industries in Southeast Asia posits a new place for a speaking sex worker subject. Provides vital up-to-date research for scholars in many disciplines.
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Southeast Asian sex workers are stereotypically understood as passive victims of the political economy, and submissive to western men. The advent of HIV/AIDS only compounds this image. Sex Work in Southeast Asia is a cultural critique of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes targetting sex tourism industries in Southeast Asia.
MoreTable of Contents:
1. Introduction 2. Rethinking the prostitute subject: bodies, subjectivity and space 3. Cartographies of desire: mapping Southeast Asian sex industries 4. Negotiating the bar: sex, money and the uneasy politics of third space 5. Beyond the bar: lives, community and transient identities 6. Sex work, HIV/AIDS and blame: mandatory HIV antibody testing 7. Prostitute victim/sex worker agent: the global discourse of NGOs 8. Conclusion
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