Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia

Professional Girlfriends and Transactional Relationships

Heidi Hoefinger (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2013
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-62934-8 (ISBN)

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Dealing with the complex and discomforting ‘grey ‘area where sex, love and money collide, this book highlights the general materiality of everyday sex that takes place in all relationships. In doing so, it draws attention to and destigmatizes the transactional elements within many ‘normative’ partnerships – be they transnational, inter-ethnic or otherwise.

Focusing on Cambodia, and on a subculture of young women employed in the tourist bar scene referred to as ‘professional girlfriends’, the book shows that the resulting transnational relationships between Cambodian women and their foreign partners are complex and multi-layered. It argues that the sex-for-cash prostitution framework is no longer an appropriate model of analysis. Instead, a new vocabulary of ‘professional girlfriends’ and ‘transactional sex’ is used, with which the nuanced complexities of these transnational partnerships are analysed.

Interdisciplinary in nature, the book inspires new understandings of gender, power, sex, love, desire, political economy and materiality within everyday relationships around the globe. It is a useful contribution for students and scholars of Anthropology, Sociology, Southeast Asian Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Cultural Studies.

Heidi Hoefinger is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Development and Research Institutes in New York and an Adjunct Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Institute of South East Asian Affairs at Chiang Mai University, Thailand.

1. Professional Girlfriends and Transactional Sex 2. Methods, Ethics and Intimate Ethnography 3. Sex, Work and Agency 4. Politics, History and the Sexual Landscape 5. Sexuality, Subculture and Alternative Kinship 6. Constructions of Love and the Materiality of Everyday Sex 7. Moving Beyond Sex Work

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.4.2013
Reihe/Serie	The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia
Zusatzinfo	4 Halftones, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	0-415-62934-9 / 0415629349
ISBN-13	978-0-415-62934-8 / 9780415629348
Zustand	Neuware