{"product_id":"transnational-desires-9780826518231","title":"Transnational Desires","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMigrant 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 \u003ci\u003eTransnational Desires,\u003c\/i\u003e however, are women from the Brazilian middle class--some of them well-educated professionals--who migrated to the United States not just to better themselves economically but also to realize their personal dreams. \u003cp\u003eTheir 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 women--their 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTransnational Desires\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the lives of nine Brazilian dancers with whom the author,\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vanderbilt University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018480320855,"sku":"9780826518231","price":32.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780826518231.jpg?v=1750777053","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/transnational-desires-9780826518231","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}