The global political economy of sex : desire, violence, and insecurity in Mediterranean nation states / Anna M. Agathangelou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agathangelou, Anna M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women immigrants--Mediterranean Region--Social conditions.

Women immigrants.

Women immigrants--Mediterranean Region--Economic conditions.

Minority women--Mediterranean Region--Economic conditions.

Minority women.

Sex industry--Mediterranean Region.

Sex industry.

Sexual division of labor--Mediterranea Region.

Sexual division of labor.

Economic conditions.

Social conditions.

Mediterranean Region--Economic conditions.

Mediterranean Region.

Physical Description:

xii, 214 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Summary:

This book examines the movement of domestic and sex workers to Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey and demonstrates that gender, race (ethnicity), and nationality are crucial elements in the constitution of the desire economies which are informed by the dominant neoliberal understanding of globalization and its neocolonial logic: the desire for power and security, and the drive to consume the labor and bodies of the Other.

Contents:

1 Sex and Domestic Work in the Periphery: Fenced-Off Economies of Desire 1

2 Peripheral Economies Working and Playing Hard: Social Reproduction and Racial and Sexual Desire in the Mediterranean 37

3 Reproductive Labor: Sex and Domestic Work in Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey 69

4 Desiring Power in the European Union: Peripheral Economic States' Participation in Capital Accumulation 97

5 National Desires for Security 121

6 A Global Political Economy of Sex: Feminist Possibilities for Transborder Democracy and Safety 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-206) and index.

ISBN:

0312294662

OCLC:

53796821