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Transnational Desires: Brazilian Erotic Dancers in New York

Transnational Desires: Brazilian Erotic Dancers in New York

Maia, Suzana

Hardcover

Immigration & RefugeesLatino StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0826518222
ISBN13: 9780826518224
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: Jun 18 2012
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Migrant sex workers are commonly cast as victims, moved by desperation to flee poverty and hopelessness in their home country. The Brazilian erotic dancers Suzana Maia presents in Transnational Desires, however, are women from the Brazilian middle classsome of them welleducated professionalswho migrated to the United States not just to better themselves economically but also to realize their personal dreams.

Their motivation to migrate and to work as erotic dancers can also be understood in the context of a representational system, inaugurated in colonial times, that emphasizes the exoticism of Brazilian womentheir bodies, their skin tone, their sexuality. These stereotypes are the props that Brazilian women use to construct their performances in Manhattan and Queens gentlemen's bars and the language through which they negotiate their relationships to society at large.

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