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Maia - Transnational Desires: Brazilian Erotic Dancers in New York - 9780826518231 - V9780826518231
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Transnational Desires: Brazilian Erotic Dancers in New York

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Description for Transnational Desires: Brazilian Erotic Dancers in New York Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.

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 realise their personal dreams.

Their motivation to migrate and to work as erotic dancers can also be understood in the context of a representational system, inaugurated in colonial times, that emphasises the exoticism of Brazilian women, their bodies, their skin ... Read more

Transnational Desires focuses on the lives of nine Brazilian dancers with whom the author, herself a middle-class Brazilian, developed close relationships over the years. Maia examines their social relations both in the bar scene and with family, friends, and lovers outside. She shows that for these women erotic dancing is part of a life trajectory that involves negotiating their social position and life prospects in a fundamentally transnational social universe.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826518231
SKU
V9780826518231
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