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What’s Love Got to Do with It?
Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic
by Denise Brennan, Walter D. Mignolo❗ What’s Love Got to Do with It? – Read More ❗
- Genres: anthropology, sexuality, sociology, womens, politics
- Publisher: Duke University Press Books
- Language: english
- Release date: May 14, 2004
- Format: paperback, 296 pages
- ISBN: 9780822332978 (0822332973)
- Author: Denise Brennan, Walter D. Mignolo
About The Book
In locations around the world, sex tourism is a booming business. What’s Love Got to Do with It? is an in-depth examination of the motivations of workers, clients, and others connected to the sex tourism business in Sosúa, a town on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic. Denise Brennan considers why Dominican and Haitian women move to Sosúa to pursue sex work and describes how sex tourists, primarily Europeans, come to Sosúa to buy sex cheaply and live out racialized fantasies. For the sex workers, Brennan explains, the sex trade is more than a means of survival — it is an advancement strategy that hinges on their successful “performance” of love. Many of these women seek to turn a commercialized sexual transaction into a long-term relationship that could lead to marriage, migration, and a way out of poverty. Illuminating the complex world of Sosúa’s sex business in rich detail, Brennan draws on extensive interviews not only with sex workers and clients, but also with others who facilitate and benefit from the sex trade. She weaves these voices into an analysis of Dominican economic and migration histories to consider the opportunities — or lack thereof — available to poor Dominican women. She shows how these women, local actors caught in a web of global economic relations, try to take advantage of the foreign men who are in Sosúa to take advantage of them. Through her detailed study of the lives and working conditions of the women in Sosúa’s sex trade, Brennan raises important questions about women’s power, control, and opportunities in a globalized economy.
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