Globalization, Prostitution and Sex-Trafficking: Corporeal Politics (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)
Penttinen, Elina
ISBN 10: 041559958X ISBN 13: 9780415599580
Published by Routledge, 2007
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Drawing on extensive fieldwork on the trafficking of Russian and Baltic female sex workers, this book demonstrates how the embodiment and reiteration of globalization on the bodies of gendered individuals are tied to the larger processes of globalization. It is of interest to students of international relations, globalization and gender studies. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 294. . 2010. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780415599580
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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.
Elina Penttinen illustrates how the global sex industry feeds on complex global flows. Drawing on extensive fieldwork on the trafficking of Russian and Baltic female sex workers, she demonstrates how the embodiment and reiteration of globalization on the bodies of gendered individuals are tied to the larger processes of globalization. Appadurai’s framework of landscapes of globalization is developed into a framework of shadow sexscapes in order to show how the global sex industry feeds on complex global flows and in turn operates as a form of shadow globalization.
Globalization, Prostitution and Sex Trafficking will be of interest to students and researchers of international relations, globalization and gender studies.
About the Author:
Elina Penttinen is a postdoctoral researcher at Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI) at the University of Tampere, Finland.
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Title: Globalization, Prostitution and ...
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New