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17%OFFMegan       Rivers-Moore - Gringo Gulch: Sex, Tourism, and Social Mobility in Costa Rica - 9780226373386 - V9780226373386
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Gringo Gulch: Sex, Tourism, and Social Mobility in Costa Rica

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Description for Gringo Gulch: Sex, Tourism, and Social Mobility in Costa Rica Hardcover. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCR; JFMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
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
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
430g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226373386
SKU
V9780226373386
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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.

Reviews for Gringo Gulch: Sex, Tourism, and Social Mobility in Costa Rica
Nuancing and unsettling simple binaries between men and women, North and South, rich and poor, agent and victim, Rivers-Moore uses rich ethnography to vividly show how tourist sex workers and their clients are all involved in complex and internally contradictory projects of self-fashioning and class mobility in a context in which sex and affective care are fully commoditized. A major ... Read more

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