"Latina/os are currently the largest minority population in the United States. They are also one of the fastest growing. Yet, we have very limited research and understanding of their sexualities. Instead, stereotypical images flourish even though scholars have challenged the validity and narrowness of these images and the lack of attention to the larger social context. Gathering the latest empirical work in the social and behavioral scie ..."
"Latina/os are currently the largest minority population in the United States. They are also one of the fastest growing. Yet, we have very limited research and understanding of their sexualities. Instead, stereotypical images flourish even though scholars have challenged the validity and narrowness of these images and the lack of attention to the larger social context. Gathering the latest empirical work in the social and behavioral scie ..."
Economies of Desire(9th Edition) Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic by Amalia L. Cabezas Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2009 by Temple University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59213-750-3, ISBN: 1-59213-750-4
" Is a native-born tour guide who has sex with touristsâin exchange for dinner or gifts or cashâmerely a prostitute or gigolo? What if the tourist continues to send gifts or money to the tour guide after returning home? As this original and provocative book demonstrates, when it comes to sexâand the effects of capitalism and globalizationânothing is as simple as it might seem. Based on ten years of research, Economies of D ..."
The Wages of Empire(1st Edition) Neoliberal Policies, Repression, and Women's Poverty (Transnational Feminist Studies) by Amalia L. Cabezas, Marguerite Waller, Ellen Reese Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2008 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-59451-348-0, ISBN: 1-59451-348-1
"Corporate globalization has intensified in recent years, taking a terrible toll on the lives of ordinary women in the global North and South. The Wages of Empire: Neoliberal Policies, Repression, and Women's Poverty investigates the related processes of neoliberal economic restructuring and increased militarization, tracking policy and its enforcement to its impact on low-income women. This interdisciplinary volume provides rich analyse ..."
"With tourism accounting for approximately thirty percent of the Caribbean's GDP and twenty-four percent of employment, a link between the sex trade and the tourism industry has gained recent attention. Shifts in global production, an increase of disposable income for pleasure and recreation, and a desire by North Americans and Europeans for an experience of 'exotic' cultures, are often claimed to be the cause. This volume explores the c ..."
"Corporate globalization has intensified in recent years, taking a terrible toll on the lives of ordinary women in the global North and South. This book investigates the related processes of neoliberal economic restructuring and increased militarization, tracking policy and its enforcement to its impact on low-income women. This interdisciplinary volume provides rich analyses of the oppressive working and living conditions of urban and r ..."
Economies of Desire Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic by Amalia L. Cabezas Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2009 by Temple University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59213-749-7, ISBN: 1-59213-749-0
"Is a native-born tour guide who has sex with tourists—in exchange for dinner or gifts or cash—merely a prostitute or gigolo? What if the tourist continues to send gifts or money to the tour guide after returning home? As this original and provocative book demonstrates, when it comes to sex—and the effects of capitalism and globalization—nothing is as simple as it might seem.Based on ten years of research, Economies of Desire is the firs ..."
"With tourism accounting for approximately thirty percent of the Caribbean's GDP and twenty-four percent of employment, a link between the sex trade and the tourism industry has gained recent attention. Shifts in global production, an increase of disposable income for pleasure and recreation, and a desire by North Americans and Europeans for an experience of 'exotic' cultures, are often claimed to be the cause. This volume explores the c ..."
"apparently healthy potato tubers that are infected with R. solanacearum (Allen,
Kelman, and French 2001). It is difficult to estimate potato crop losses to bacterial
wilt because many of the people affected are subsistence farmers in the
developing world, where disease losses are not tabulated, and because farmers
often abandon cultivation of the crop altogether after their fields become infested.
Nonetheless, the International Pot ..."
"El presente volumen representa un Proyecto de la Iniciativa Universidad de California-Cuba (UC-CUBA), un consorcio académico que reúne a profesores y estudiantes de posgrado en siete campuses de la Universidad de California, a saber, Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego y Santa Cruz. El consorcio incluye especialistas en las ramas de química, bilogía, ciencias políticas, historia, sociología, literatura y antropolo ..."
Economies of Desire Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic by Amalia L. Cabezas 232 Pages, Published 2009 by Temple University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59213-751-0, ISBN: 1-59213-751-2
"Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic Amalia L. Cabezas.
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Study of the Cuban Economy, ASCE, Miami, (14): 20– 43. http://lanic.utexas.edu/
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