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• W387357662 abstract "Review of Economies of desire: Sex and in Cuba and the Dominican Republic by Amalia Cabezas, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. Erica Lorraine Williams Drawing upon over a decade of ethnographic research in the Caribbean, Amalia Cabezas' groundbreaking book, Economies of desire: Sex and in Cuba and the Dominican Republic, explores the erotic underpinnings of transnational tourism (p. 3). This ethnographically rich and well-written book challenges fundamental assumptions about the relationships among sex, money, and affect in the context of transnational tourism. Cabezas builds upon classic by Cynthia Enloe (1989) in conceptualizing affective as merely another part of the product being sold in the industry (p.13). The first two chapters describe historical and political economic shifts within the broader cultural contexts of the two countries. This enables a better understanding of how two nations that may seem strikingly different have come to resemble one another in recent decades, particularly in terms of development and neoliberal reforms. The remaining three chapters of the book offer unique interventions in scholarship on the sexual economies of tourism. In Chapter Three, Eroticizing labor in all-inclusive resorts, Cabezas highlights an often-overlooked aspect of tourism: relationships between tourists and resort workers. She emphasizes emotional labor, worker agency, and the sexualization and racial stratification within the hospitality industry. Cabezas goes against the grain with her compelling argument that resort workers resist hotel management's exploitation of their labor by establishing sexual-affective relations with foreign tourists that could lead to friendship, remittances, visas, and marriage. Chapter 4, Daughters of Yemaya and other luchadoras, is perhaps the richest chapter of the book in terms of ethnographic description and theoretical rigor. Here, she theorizes gifts, tactical sex, and work, and also draws upon Afro-Cuban religious cosmologies to understand how women conceptualize their relationships with foreign tourists. Cabezas understands gifts as an important feature of exchange and solidarity (p. 122) that can solidify and strengthen affective connections and alleviate the gulf of disparities between people (p. 123). She argues that gifts can represent solidarity, care, and concern for someone, as well as the transformation of a relationship into one of courtship and love (p.124). Commodification and affect are not mutually exclusive, Cabezas argues, and one cannot assume that all relationships that involve monetary exchange are immoral, oppressive, and exploitative (p. 22). This engaging ethnography skillfully challenges the concept of as the only viable analytical tool for understanding interactions between tourists and locals (p.117). Are young, single mothers in the Caribbean engaging in sex work when they pursue relationships with foreign men as a strategy to reap some of the benefits of transnational capitalism and development? Cabezas perceptively critiques studies of for failing to pay sufficient attention to the affective realm (p. 11). Accordingly, the scholarship on emotional labor and care greatly influences her theoretical approach. Cabezas points out that the category of sex work cannot be applied to all erotic crosscultural encounters (p. …" @default.
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