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SEXING
THE CARIBBEAN
SEXING
the Caribbean
Gender, Race, and Sexual Labor
By
Kamala Kempadoo
Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kempadoo, Kamala.
Sexing the Caribbean : gender, race, and sexual labor / Kamala Kempadoo.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-415-93503-2 (hardback)–ISBN 0-415-93504-0 (pbk.)
1. Sex-oriented businesses—Social aspects—Caribbean Area. 2. Sex customs—
Caribbean Area. 3. Prostitutes—Caribbean area. 4. Postcolonialism—Caribbean
Area. I. Title.
2004
’09729—dc22
2004006467
ISBN 0-203-33808-1 Master e-book ISBN
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
1. Introduction:
Thinking about the Caribbean 1
2. Past Studies, New Directions:
Constructions and
Reconstructions of
Caribbean Sexuality 15
3. Sex, Work, Gifts, and Money:
Prostitution and Other
Sexual-Economic Transactions 53
4. The Happy Camp in Curaçao:
Legal Sex Work and the
Making of the “SanDom” 87
5. For Love or Money? Fantasies
and Realities in Sex Tourism 115
6. Trading Sex across Borders: Interregional
and International Migration 141
7. Dying for Sex: HIV/AIDS and
Other Dangers 167
8. Resistance, Rebellion,
and Futures 191
Notes 207
Bibliography 245
Index 263
v
Acknowledgments
At times while writing this book