| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 222 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The Rutgers series in childhood studies
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Rutgers series in childhood studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-211) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Globalizing Nevis : radical shifts from subsistence to consumerism -- Competing discourses and morality at play -- Consuming global scripts : media, sex, and desire -- The state and sexualities -- Rethinking sexual-economic exchange -- Theorizing sexual pleasure -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
Pleasures and Perils follows a group of young girls living on Nevis, an island society in the Eastern Caribbean. In this provocative ethnography, Debra Curtis examines their sexuality in gripping detail: why do Nevisian girls engage in sexual activity at such young ages? Where is the line between coercion and consent? How does a desire for wealth affect a girl's sexual practices?. Curtis shows that girls are often caught between conflicting discourses of Christian teachings about chastity, public health cautions about safe sex, and media enticements about consumer delights. Sexuality's contrad. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Girls -- Sexual behavior -- Saint Kitts and Nevis -- Nevis.
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Girls -- Sexual behavior. |
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Saint Kitts and Nevis -- Nevis. |
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Sex -- Social aspects -- Saint Kitts and Nevis -- Nevis.
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Sex -- Social aspects. |
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Sex in popular culture -- Saint Kitts and Nevis -- Nevis.
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Sex in popular culture. |
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Girls -- Saint Kitts and Nevis -- Nevis -- Attitudes.
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Girls. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Girls. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Curtis, Debra, 1963- Pleasures and perils. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2009 9780813544298 0813544297 (DLC) 2008013958 (OCoLC)221663440 |
| ISBN |
9780813546964 (electronic book) |
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0813546966 (electronic book) |
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9780813544304 |
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0813544300 |
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9780813544298 |
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0813544297 |
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