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OverviewThis updated version of Jeremy Seabrook's book ""Travels in the Skin Trade"" contains a new preface, highlighting the current issues surrounding sex tourism in Thailand. Press coverage of the sex trade routinely consists of ill-informed, moralizing and sensationalist denunciations of the ""industry"". Through the words of sex workers and their clients, journalist and writer Seabrook reconsiders the popular conception of the sex industry and explores the complex relationship between sex and tourism. In so doing he presents an objective, unmoralizing and sensitive view of the industry. Through its examination of the many paradoxes surrounding this controversial subject, ""Travels in the Skin Trade"" also sheds new light on the wider and problematic relationship between the North and the South. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jeremy SeabrookPublisher: Pluto Press Imprint: Pluto Press Edition: 2nd edition Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.294kg ISBN: 9780745317564ISBN 10: 0745317561 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 20 April 2001 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsPreface to New Edition Introduction 1. Sex as Industry 2. The Environment of the Sex Trade 3. Male Visitors to Bangkok 4. The Sex Industry: Economic and Social Base 5. The Sex Industry: Supply 6. Stories from a Sex Industry 7. The Sex Industry Becomes the Aids Industry 8. The Sex Market and Human Rights 9. Children's Rights in Thailand Conclusion Appendix: Useful Contacts IndexReviews"""'Jeremy Seabrook is one of England's most imaginative and creative writers, with a preacher's talent for prophesy and a capacity for righteous indignation reminiscent of George Orwell.' Richard Gott, The Guardian 'It raises questions about the rights of Thai women and children and the expectations of the men who travel to the country for this service. Finally it encourages a more wide-reaching understanding of basic human rights and considers the problematic relationship between North and South.' Oxfam Review of Journals""" 'Jeremy Seabrook is one of England's most imaginative and creative writers, with a preacher's talent for prophesy and a capacity for righteous indignation reminiscent of George Orwell.' Richard Gott, The Guardian 'It raises questions about the rights of Thai women and children and the expectations of the men who travel to the country for this service. Finally it encourages a more wide-reaching understanding of basic human rights and considers the problematic relationship between North and South.' Oxfam Review of Journals Author InformationJeremy Seabrook is a well-known journalist and writer. He is a frequent contributor to, amongst others, New Society, New Statesman, the Guardian and the Independent, and the the author of Children of Other Worlds, (Pluto Press, April 2001), Notes from Another India (Pluto Press, 1994), Victims of Development (Verso, 1994), and co-author (with Trevor Blackwell) of The Revolt Against Change (Vintage, 1994). He has written widely on aspects of social injustice, from housing to workers in the sex trade. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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