Sex, love and money in Cambodia : professional girlfriends and transactional relationships / Heidi Hoefinger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoefinger, Heidi, author.

Series:

The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

Modern anthropology of South-East Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prostitution--Cambodia.

Prostitution.

Sex customs--Cambodia.

Sex customs.

Interpersonal relations--Cambodia.

Interpersonal relations.

Cambodia--Social life and customs.

Cambodia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<P>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.</P><P></P><P>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 t

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 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; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed July 16, 2013).

ISBN:

1-317-93124-6

1-138-84323-7

0-203-55078-1

1-317-93123-8

9780203550786

OCLC:

852758167