
Sugar Girls and Seamen: A Journey into the World of Dockside Prostitution in South Africa
Henry Trotter
Sugar Girls and Seamen illuminates the shadowy world of dockside prostitution in South Africa, focusing on the women of Cape Town and Durban who sell their hospitality to foreign sailors.Dockside “sugar girls” work at one of the busiest cultural intersections in the world. Through their continual interactions with foreign seamen, they become major traffickers in culture, ideas, languages, styles, goods, currencies, genes, and diseases. Many learn the seamen’s languages, develop emotional relationshipswith them, have their babies, and become entangled in vast webs of connection. Henry Trotter argues that these South Africanwomen are the ultimate cosmopolitans, the unsung sirens of globalization.
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Sunday Times, South Africa
“Trotter presents a depth and richness of narrative that could only be achieved through prolonged and personal enquiry… The result is a series of narratives through which the reader, in turn, is able to become familiar with the characters involved.”
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