Tourist attractions : performing race and masculinity in Brazil's sexual economy
Gregory Mitchell (Author)
In Tourist Attractions, Gregory Mitchell takes us into the bathhouses of Rio de Janeiro, where rent boys cruise for clients, and to the beaches of Salvador da Bahia, where African American gay men seek out hustlers while exploring cultural heritage tourist sites. The ethnography stretches into the Amazon, where indigenous fantasies are tinged with the erotic at eco-resorts, and into the homes of "kept men," who forge long-term, long-distance, transnational relationships that blur the boundaries of what counts as commercial sex. Mitchell asks how tourists perceive sex workers' performances of Brazilianness, race, and masculinity, and he proposes that in order to better understand how people experience differences sexually, we reframe prostitution - which Marxist feminists have long conceptualized as sexual labor - as also being a form of performance labor
Print Book, English, 2015
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2015