Sex Love and Money in Cambodia Professional Girlfriends and Transactional Relationships 1st Edition by Heidi Hoefinger 9780415629348, 0415629349

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ISBN 10: 0415629349
ISBN 13: 9780415629348
Author: Heidi Hoefinger

Dealing with the complex and discomforting ‘grey ‘area where sex, love and money collide, this book highlights the general materiality of everyday sex that takes place in all relationships. In doing so, it draws attention to and destigmatizes the transactional elements within many ‘normative’ partnerships – be they transnational, inter-ethnic or otherwise. Focusing on Cambodia, and on a subculture of young women employed in the tourist bar scene referred to as ‘professional girlfriends’, the book shows that the resulting transnational relationships between Cambodian women and their foreign partners are complex and multi-layered. It argues that the sex-for-cash prostitution framework is no longer an appropriate model of analysis. Instead, a new vocabulary of ‘professional girlfriends’ and ‘transactional sex’ is used, with which the nuanced complexities of these transnational partnerships are analysed. Interdisciplinary in nature, the book inspires new understandings of gender, power, sex, love, desire, political economy and materiality within everyday relationships around the globe. It is a useful contribution for students and scholars of Anthropology, Sociology, Southeast Asian Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Cultural Studies.

Sex Love and Money in Cambodia Professional Girlfriends and Transactional Relationships 1st Table of contents:

1. Professional Girlfriends and Transactional Sex

Defining professional girlfriends

• Significance and objectives

• Sex work and intimacy

• Women, gender and the social order in Cambodia

• Gender stereotypes and double standards

• Temporary marriage and patronage in South East Asia

• Cultural studies and post-feminism

• Hybridity, resistance and new emerging sexualities

• Romance, sex and pragmatism

• Political economy

• Transactional sex

• Connected lives

• Departure points

2. Methods, Ethics and Intimate Ethnography

First encounters

• Early research on the ‘sex industry’

• Nagging questions

• Expanding the discourse

• Three methodological explorations

  • Relationship and Intimacy Survey

  • Global Girls: Autobiography and E-Literacy Project

  • The Film Project

• Practical limitations

• Participant selection

• Language

• Insiders and outsiders

• Multiplex subjectivities

• Matters of truth

• Confidentiality

• Interviews as cathartic activities

• Burden of information

• Desires to abandon research

• Long-term fieldwork

• Pro-intimacy in the field: three paradigms

• Power, exploitation and inequality

• Best friends forever?

• Desertion, abandonment and loss

• Description and representation

• Beyond betrayal

3. Sex, Work and Agency

Work and agency

• Defining the work

• Opportunity myth

• ‘No talk, no money’

• Decision-making power and negotiating skills

• Sweetheart relationships

• Ethnic stigma and celebrity status

• Community and solidarity

4. Politics, History and the Sexual Landscape

Historico-political backdrop

• Foreign troops, capitalism and the expansion of prostitution

• Sexual landscape

  • Father–daughter incest

  • Child-sexual exploitation

  • Selling of underage virginity

  • Debt bondage

  • Gang rape

  • ‘Human trafficking’

  • Marriage brokering

• Development and debate

• Action research: the Global Girls Project

• Mutual exchange

5. Sexuality, Subculture and Alternative Kinship

Geography of the city

• Sex as a metanarrative

• Venue descriptions

  • Hostess bars

  • ‘Sex bars’

  • Karaoke bars and beer gardens

• Introduction to ‘bar life’

• Bar girl behaviour and hierarchy

• Boyfriends, ethnicity and status

• Freedoms associated with bar life

• Constraints of bar work

• Subculture, style and consumption

• Celebritism and patronage

• Alternative kinship

• Bridging worlds: glocalization

• Changing norms of female sexuality

• Homosociality and heteroflexibility

• Role of alcohol and drugs

• Intimate partner violence

• Self-harming and suicide

6. Constructions of Love and the Materiality of Everyday Sex

Media depictions of love and romance

• Meanings and importance of love

• Love within sexual relationships

• Stereotypes and attitudes

• Honesty: a contradiction between words and practice

• Performance of love

• ‘Real’ feelings

• Male perspectives and motivations

• Newly imported model of dating: ‘going Dutch’

• ‘A good catch’

• Economics within relationships

• Materiality of everyday relationships

7. Moving Beyond Sex Work

Comparative cases and further research

• Onwards

• Final thoughts

Notes

• 1. Professional Girlfriends and Transactional Sex

• 2. Methods, Ethics and Intimate Ethnography

• 3. Sex, Work and Agency

• 4. Politics, History and the Sexual Landscape

• 5. Sexuality, Subculture and Alternative Kinship

• 6. Constructions of Love and the Materiality of Everyday Sex

• 7. Moving Beyond Sex Work

Bibliography

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