Female Sex Tourism in the Caribbean – A “Fair Trade” or a New Kind of Colonial Exploitation? – Tanika Gupta’sSugar Mummiesand Debbie Tucker Green’sTrade

• Authors: Hildegard Klein
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The above-mentioned authors offer a challenging and revealing study of the enjoyments and drawbacks of female sex tourism. I examine the interactions between white female tourists and local black men from the context of post-colonialism, asking whether these encounters can be considered a “fair trade” or whether they are the neo-colonising of people in this ex-slave society.

Keywords

EN

Exploitation; fair trade; female sex tourism; neo-colonialism; slavery

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Gender Studies
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 154-170

Dates

published

2015-12-01

online

2016-02-29

Contributors

author

Hildegard Klein

• University of Málaga, Spain, 29071 Málaga, Spain

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/genst-2016-0010