Elina Penttinen

Globalization, Prostitution and Sex Trafficking

Corporeal Politics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Globalization has been traditionally interpreted as a phenomenon that takes place at the macro level and is determined by states and markets. This volume takes a different approach to understanding globalization, showing how through the global sex trade, globalization is embodied and enacted by individuals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780415420990
• ISBN-10: 0415420997
• Artikelnr.: 23593536

Autorenporträt

Elina Penttinen is a postdoctoral researcher at Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI) at the University of Tampere, Finland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Silent Point of Globalization 2. Bio-power and
Subjectivation in the Globalized World-economy of Sex 3. Sexscapes of
Globalization: Constructions of Subject and Abject Positions in Landscapes
of Globalization 4. Narratives of Embodied Globalization of Russian
Prostitutes Working in the Erotic Clubs in Helsinki: Reflections on One
Night in Helsinki from the Position of a Whore, a Client and a Researcher
5. Sounds of Silence in Lapland: Narratives of Trafficking in Women across
Finnish-Russian and Norwegian Borders 6. 'The Land of Perverts': Domain of
Subjectivity from the Position of an Abject to the Global Village:
Narratives of Foreign Erotic Dancers in Finland 7. Conclusions: Narratives
of Corporeal Politics