[Marxism] Global Political Economy of Sex

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

I haven't read this new book, but I thought that Marxmail comrades
may find it interesting and worth a book review.

Global Political Economy of Sex
Desire, Violence, and Insecurity in Mediterranean Nation States
Anna M. Agathangelou
Hardback 156mm x 234mm
December 2004 0312294662
208 Pages £45.00

Description
At the intersection of the warmth of hearth and home and the dangers
of the street lies the tenuous position of women engaged in
reproductive labour, those involved in the sex trade and those in
domestic positions. These are women who are vulnerable, exploited,
and whose dirty work allows for the reproduction of traditional
social mores and roles. Yet while they are used to sustain tradition,
dialectically they reflect the hyperconnections of globalization
through the migration of women, the development of placement
'agencies' that often are little but fronts for transnational crime;
and the transfer of money from the developed countries to the
oppressed world. This book focuses on the interaction of the global
and the local through a close investigation of the political economy
of desire and reproduction in three states that blur the line between
developed and developing: Greece; Turkey; and Cyprus. These are
countries at the crossroads, in flux, whose peripheral siting at the
centre of global capitalism provides unusual insight into the dark
recesses of patriarchy, paternalism and exploitation.

Contents
Sex and Domestic Work in the Peripheries: The Fenced-Off Economies of Desire
Invisible and Silent Female Migrant Reproductive Labour: Cyprus,
Greece and Turkey
Peripheral Economies Working and Playing Hard: Social Reproduction
and Racial and Sexual Desire in the Mediterranean
Desiring Power in the European Union: Peripheral Development and 'Mimicry'
National Desires for Security
Conclusion: A Global Political Economy of Sex?

Author Biographies
ANNA M. AGATHANGELOU is Lecturer at the University of Houston-Clear
Lake and Director of the Global Change Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus.

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--
Yoshie

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