{"product_id":"sex-love-and-money-in-heidi-hoefinger-9780415629348","title":"Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia: Professional Girlfriends and Transactional Relationships","description":"\u003cp\u003eDealing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterdisciplinary 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Heidi Hoefinger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415629349\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415629348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/18\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Heidi Hoefinger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136106574079,"sku":"9780415629348","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4b734f1e-ca5a-4f27-a072-c0ed0eb5b469.jpg?v=1770160554","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sex-love-and-money-in-heidi-hoefinger-9780415629348","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}