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Gringo Gulch: Sex, Tourism, and Social Mobility in Costa Rica
Megan Rivers-Moore
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Description for Gringo Gulch: Sex, Tourism, and Social Mobility in Costa Rica
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCR; JFMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 330.
The story of sex tourism in the Gringo Gulch neighborhood of San Jose, Costa Rica could be easily cast as the exploitation of poor local women by privileged North American men men who are in a position to take advantage of the vast geopolitical inequalities that make Latin American women into suppliers of low-cost sexual labor. But in Gringo Gulch, Megan Rivers-Moore tells a more nuanced story, demonstrating that all the actors intimately entangled in the sex tourism industry sex workers, sex tourists, and the state use it as a strategy for getting ahead. Rivers-Moore situates her ethnography at the ... Read more
The story of sex tourism in the Gringo Gulch neighborhood of San Jose, Costa Rica could be easily cast as the exploitation of poor local women by privileged North American men men who are in a position to take advantage of the vast geopolitical inequalities that make Latin American women into suppliers of low-cost sexual labor. But in Gringo Gulch, Megan Rivers-Moore tells a more nuanced story, demonstrating that all the actors intimately entangled in the sex tourism industry sex workers, sex tourists, and the state use it as a strategy for getting ahead. Rivers-Moore situates her ethnography at the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226373416
SKU
V9780226373416
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99-50
About Megan Rivers-Moore
Megan Rivers-Moore is assistant professor at the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
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