Sex Work in Southeast Asia

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Scenes of Ambivalence in Literature and Film

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av Leslie Barnes, The Australian National University) Barnes, Leslie (Associate Professor of French Studies

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Examining the ambivalences that mark Southeast Asian sex industries under global imperialism, this book explores the multi-layered subjectivities of sex workers, procurers and clients, and interrogates the frameworks in which discourses surrounding sex work circulate. Engaged with debates concerning the status of transactional sex, Leslie Barnes explores the symbolic force and concrete conditions of sex work in Cambodia and Vietnam, considering how these debates and the figures they ensnare are mediated by fiction and creative nonfiction. The book's scenes of ambivalence show how the aesthetic treatment of sex work stretches the paradigms we use to make sense not only of sex work, but also of art, the evidentiary status of testimony and the spectacles of pleasure and suffering. Contesting essentialism and authenticity, and working to suspend judgement, these scenes encourage a re-examination of what we think we know about sex work, how we know it and what we do with that knowledge.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-12-31
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Directions in Francophone Studies: Diversity, Decolonisation, Queerness
Antal sidor256
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399532884

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List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Imperialism, Ambivalence, Sex1. ‘Why my story?’: Sex Work and Rithy Panh’s Cinematic Image2. Survivors, Celebrities and Saviours in the Cambodian Rescue Industry3. Of Markets and Mediocrity: Sex Tourism and Michel Houellebecq’s Neocolonial Antihero4. Kiều Refracted: Sex Work and the Evolution of a Vietnamese Heroine5. Vietnamese Brides: Marriage, Migration and the BodyConclusion: Dispassionate ReadingWorks CitedIndex