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  Title

  Gringo Gulch : sex, tourism, and social mobility in Costa Rica

  Author

  Rivers-Moore, Megan,  

  Publisher:

  The University of Chicago Press,

  Pub date:

  2016.

  Pages:

  x, 230 pages :

  ISBN:

  9780226373386

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Centennial - Progress.
  

  • 9780226373386
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    HQ154 .S26 R58 2016	1	Book	On the shelf

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  Gringo Gulch : sex, tourism, and social mobility in Costa Rica
  Rivers-Moore, Megan,
  
  
  

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  Personal Author:

  Rivers-Moore, Megan,

  Title:

  Gringo Gulch : sex, tourism, and social mobility in Costa Rica / Megan Rivers-Moore.

  Publication info:

  Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

  Physical description:

  x, 230 pages : illiustrations ; 23 cm

  Contents:

  Introduction The commerce of sex in Costa Rica -- Sex, class, and consumption Almighty gringos and the relational economy of sex tourism -- Selling sex, selling care: affective labor in the tourism sector -- Motherhood, consumption, and the purchase of respectability -- Regulating sex in the age of neoliberalism The state and the sex industry -- Good for the state, bad for the nation: race, space, and migration -- Conclusion: getting ahead in Gringo Gulch.

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  Subject term:

  Prostitution--Costa Rica--San José.

  Subject term:

  Prostitutes--Costa Rica--San José--Social conditions.

  Subject term:

  Sex tourism--Costa Rica--San José.

  Subject term:

  Neoliberalism--Social aspects--Costa Rica--San José.

  Subject term:

  Transnationalism--Social aspects--Costa Rica--San José.