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Routledge
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Routledge
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Sexual spaces, normally inhabited by (mostly) female sex workers, are understood as masculine spaces, and positioned for and around male consumers. However, red light zones and public sex performances in both Thailand and Holland are being explored and visually consumed by female tourists in significant numbers. Their presence in red light districts and sexual venues is at odds with the ways in... Read more
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Locations of desire
3. Researching Public Sex Performance
4. Producing desire
5. Women, tourism, and the spaces of desire: making the familiar strange
6. Ontologies of difference: the low-Other
7. Disgusting Others: inscribing difference as disgust
8. The power and politics of the gaze
9. Constructing the Other: the politics of respectable femininities, prostitution, and stigma
Bibliography
Biography
Erin Sanders-McDonagh is a lecturer in Criminology at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent. Her research focuses primarily around gender and sexuality, and gender-based violence.
