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Transnational desires : Brazilian erotic dancers in New York / Suzana Maia.
Van Pelt Library PN1949.S7 .M34 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maia, Suzana.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stripteasers--Brazil--Case studies.
- Stripteasers.
- Stripteasers--New York (State)--New York--Case studies.
- Brazilians--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions--Case studies.
- Brazilians.
- Women immigrants--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions--Case studies.
- Women immigrants.
- Sex industry--New York (State)--New York--Case studies.
- Sex industry.
- Women--Brazil--Case studies.
- Women.
- Women--Identity--Case studies.
- Women--Sexual behaivor--Case studies.
- Women--Identity.
- Social conditions.
- Brazil.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 231 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- Migrant sex workers are commonly cast as victims, moved by desperation to flee poverty and hopelessness in their home country. The Brazilian erotic dancers Suzana Maia presents in Transnational Desires, however, are women from the Brazilian middle class-some of them well-educated professionals-who migrated to the United States not just to better themselves economically but also to realize their personal dreams.
- Transnational Desires focuses on the lives of nine dancers with whom the author, herself a middle-class Brazilian, developed close relationships over the years. Maia examines their social relations both in the bar scene and with family, friends, and lovers outside. She shows that for these women erotic dancing is part of a life trajectory that involves negotiating their social position and life prospects in a fundamentally transnational social universe. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Middle-class trajectories
- Representing the nation: class, race, and sexuality
- Hierarchies of bars and bodies
- Performing seduction and national identity
- Women and clients
- Ambivalent relationships
- Transnational ties
- Expanding networks.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780826518224
- 0826518222
- 9780826518231
- 0826518230
- OCLC:
- 743214163
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