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Money, sex, and love: Are they merely

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Economies of Desire is very well written and compelling, drawing us into two historical contexts and illustrating women's agency as they negotiate the economic, political, and social constraints. Cabezas' many years of field research provide nuance to her analysis, and her critique of the feminist discourse about human rights is completely on target. -Patricia Zavella, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz

Economies of Desire is very well written and compelling, drawing us into two historical contexts and illustrating women's agency as they negotiate the economic, political, and social constraints. Cabezas' many years of field research provide nuance to her analysis, and her critique of the feminist discourse about human rights is completely on target. Patricia Zavella, University of California, Santa Cruz

Economies of Desire is very well written and compelling, drawing us into two historical contexts and illustrating women's agency as they negotiate the economic, political, and social constraints. Cabezas' many years of field research provide nuance to her analysis, and her critique of the feminist discourse about human rights is completely on target. Patricia Zavella, University of California, Santa Cruz Cabezas's arguments are enhanced by numerous personal interviews...The interviews and work experience are quite suggestive and add substantial insight and personal narrative to her theoretical constructions... [T]his book provides a thought-provoking framework with which to ponder the pervasiveness and various manifestations of sex work in Cuba and the Dominican Republic. - The Americas, July 2010 Cathy Ragland has written a splendid scholarly study of musica nortena, which originated in the Mexican northern borderlands...Ragland's brilliant and informative study... Is well done and is an excellent contribution to the history of the Chicano people's amazingly rich and varied musical heritage. - Musica Nortena [W]ell written, engaging...[Cabezas] connects the socio-political and cultural factors within tourism as it intersects with individual agency. [The book] contributes to studies of tourism, transnationalism, gender and international migration. - Contemporary Sociology Cabezas presents a careful and somewhat controversial critique of sex work and human rights discourses within the contexts of neoliberal tourism development in the Caribbean. Her book, Economies of Desire is a reflexive account and feminist analysis of what working and living within two tourism destinations means...Cabezas provides a forceful critique of the scholarly literature on sex tourism by arguing against the reduction of men and women to the category of sex worker. By placing individuals within a framework that blends political economic analyses with emotive and affective explanations, Cabezas challenges common media and scholarly assumptions about why Cubans and Dominicans use sensuality and sex with foreign tourists. Bulletin of Latin American Research, October 2011

""Economies of Desire is very well written and compelling, drawing us into two historical contexts and illustrating women's agency as they negotiate the economic, political, and social constraints. Cabezas' many years of field research provide nuance to her analysis, and her critique of the feminist discourse about human rights is completely on target."" Patricia Zavella, University of California, Santa Cruz ""Cabezas's arguments are enhanced by numerous personal interviews...The interviews and work experience are quite suggestive and add substantial insight and personal narrative to her theoretical constructions... [T]his book provides a thought-provoking framework with which to ponder the pervasiveness and various manifestations of sex work in Cuba and the Dominican Republic."" - The Americas, July 2010 ""Cathy Ragland has written a splendid scholarly study of musica nortena, which originated in the Mexican northern borderlands...Ragland's brilliant and informative study... Is well done and is an excellent contribution to the history of the Chicano people's amazingly rich and varied musical heritage."" - Musica Nortena ""[W]ell written, engaging...[Cabezas] connects the socio-political and cultural factors within tourism as it intersects with individual agency. [The book] contributes to studies of tourism, transnationalism, gender and international migration."" - Contemporary Sociology ""Cabezas presents a careful and somewhat controversial critique of sex work and human rights discourses within the contexts of neoliberal tourism development in the Caribbean. Her book, Economies of Desire is a reflexive account and feminist analysis of what working and living within two tourism destinations means...Cabezas provides a forceful critique of the scholarly literature on sex tourism by arguing against the reduction of men and women to the category of sex worker. By placing individuals within a framework that blends political economic analyses with emotive and affective explanations, Cabezas challenges common media and scholarly assumptions about why Cubans and Dominicans use sensuality and sex with foreign tourists."" Bulletin of Latin American Research, October 2011 ""The findings and analysis...[by] Cabezas add[s] to the discourse on the impact of neoliberal economic strategies on women in the commercial sex sector, while also clearly illustrating the ideological differences that give different interpretations of women who are drawn/pushed into the sector."" Gender and Society, October 2011

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Amalia L. Cabezas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women's Studies at the University of California, Riverside and co-editor of The Wages of Empire: Neoliberal Policies, Repression and Women's Poverty.

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