Transnational Romances and Sex Tourism in Chochueca’s Strategy, by Rita Indiana Hernández; “Emoticons,” by Aurora Arias; and “Heading South,” by Dany Laferrière

2018 ◽  
pp. 138-158
Author(s):  
Elena Valdez
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Sex Tourism ◽  
Sex Worker ◽  
Haitian Literature ◽  
Dany Laferriere ◽  
Dominican Literature

Elena Valdez analyzes transactional, heterosexual romance as an allegory of national and transnational formations in her chapter on contemporary Dominican literature and Haitian literature. Rita Indiana, Aurora Arias, and Dany Laferrière write about sex-worker protagonists who, Valdez argues, find inclusion within the nation through the sexual economy provided by tourism. These works explore sex tourism and representations thereof, along with gender relations.

Se Valorizando (Valuing Oneself)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Lorraine Williams
Keyword(s):  
Sex Workers ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
Nongovernmental Organization ◽  
Sex Tourism ◽  
Sex Worker ◽  
Sexual Services ◽  
Afro Brazilian

This chapter examines the ambiguities implicit in the sexual and romantic encounters of the women of Aprosba with foreign men. It first analyzes how some Aprosba members conceptualize their sexual/romantic encounters and exchanges with foreigners. It then considers how the ambiguous entanglements between sex workers and foreign men—both leisure tourists and marinheiros— complicate notions of power, agency, affect, desire, and cosmopolitanism. It also discusses the racial politics of Aprosba, which has an overwhelmingly white Brazilian leadership and an overwhelmingly Afro-Brazilian membership. It shows that some sex worker express sentiments of se valorizando, or valuing oneself, tied to the act of charging for sexual services. The chapter concludes with an assessment of the perspectives of Jacqueline Leite, founder of the Humanitarian Center for the Support of Women (CHAME), a Salvador-based nongovernmental organization, about the issue of exploitation in sex tourism.

Men's Negative Reaction to Loss of Power in Gender Relations

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisca Exposito ◽  
Miguel Moya ◽  
Maria del Carmen Herrera
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Negative Reaction

Relationships, Gender Relations, and Hope in Women in STEM Majors

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhea Owens ◽  
Karen D. Multon ◽  
Barbara A. Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Women In Stem ◽  
Stem Majors

The Late-Victorian ‘New Man’ and the Neo-Victorian ‘Neo-Man’

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-121
Author(s):  
Margaret D. Stetz
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Victorian Fiction ◽  
New Man ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Victorian Age

The New Man was a crucial topic of discussion and a continual preoccupation in late-Victorian feminist writing, precisely because he was more often a wished-for presence than an actual one. Nevertheless, creators of neo-Victorian fiction and film repeatedly project him backwards onto the screen of literary history, representing him as having in fact existed in the Victorian age as a complement to the New Woman. What is at stake in retrospectively situating the New Man – or, as I will call him, the ‘Neo-Man’ – in the nineteenth century, through historical fiction? If one impulse behind fictional returns to the Victorian period is nostalgia, then what explains this nostalgia for The Man Who Never Was? This essay will suggest that neo-Victorian works have a didactic interest in transforming present-day readers, especially men, through depictions of the Neo-Man, which broaden the audience's feminist sympathies, queer its notions of gender relations, and alter its definition of masculinity.

Tourism and Crime

2010 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sex Tourism ◽  
Growing Media ◽  
Rule Breaking

Recent years have seen growing media and political attention to the issue of tourism and crime in a number of countries. Issues such as drugs tourism, sex tourism & alcohol-related crime and disorder have highlighted crimes and rule-breaking by tourists.

Caring Masculinities and Flexibilisation of Labour Markets: Fathers in Precarious and Managerial Employment in Slovenia

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Majda Hrženjak ◽  
Živa Humer
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Identity Change ◽  
Flexible Work ◽  
Limited Participation ◽  
Work Arrangements ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Young Fathers ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Managerial Positions

The starting point of this article is that transition from breadwinning to involved fathering is not only a matter of men’s identity change, but is profoundly shaped by broader societal structures, among which labour markets appear as crucial. Given that in Slovenia flexibilisation of the labour markets is a salient issue, this qualitative study, based on explorative, in-depth, semi-structured, individual interviews with fathers in precarious and managerial employment, analyses how insecure and flexible work arrangements shape fatherhood practices, impact on chances for being an involved father and structure gender relations. Narratives of fathers in managerial positions point to the persistence of the breadwinner model of fathering with limited participation in childcare, expressed as “weekend fatherhood,” but also to a more egalitarian share of childcare mainly among young fathers in managerial positions. Though the experiences of fathers in precarious employment point to their pronounced involvement in childcare, some cases in our sample indicate that precarious working relations can also, in a peculiar way, lead to the strengthening of the breadwinner model and re-traditionalisation of gender relations.

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