| #2177337 in Books | Vanderbilt University Press | 2012-06-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.90 x.70 x6.00l,.90 | File type: PDF | 256 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| "Below the Equator," Globally & Corporally|By Jeffery Mingo|I'm interested in issues surrounding ethnicity, immigration matters, and sex work; it was nice to see a work that tackles all three subjects. In this work, the academic, a Brazilian woman herself, speaks to women who would be deemed middle-class back in Brazil who now do erotic dancing in New York City. While the aca||"Most of us aim to represent the particular quality and complexity of the lives of the people we study. This fine ethnography comes as close to that end as one can hope."|--Journal of Anthropological Research
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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.
Their motivation to migrate and to work as eroti...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Transnational Desires: Brazilian Erotic Dancers in New York | Suzana Maia.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
