Pleasures and Perils : Girls' Sexuality in a Caribbean Consumer Culture.
Title:
Pleasures and Perils : Girls' Sexuality in a Caribbean Consumer Culture.
Author:
Curtis, Debra.
ISBN:
9780813546964
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (238 pages)
Series:
Series in Childhood Studies
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Globalizing Nevis: Radical Shifts from Subsistence to Consumerism -- Chapter 3: Competing Discourses and Moralities at Play -- Chapter 4: Consuming Global Scripts: Media, Sex, and Desire -- Chapter 5: The State and Sexualities -- Chapter 6: Rethinking Sexual-Economic Exchange -- Chapter 7: Theorizing Sexual Pleasure -- Chapter 8: Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
Pleasures and Perils follows a group of young girls living on Nevis, an island society in the Eastern Caribbean. Curtis shows that girls are often caught between conflicting discourses of Christian teachings about chastity, public health cautions about safe sex, and media enticements about consumer delights. SexualityâÂÂs contradictions are exposed: power and powerlessÃÂness, self-determination and cultural control, violence and pleasure.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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