Please join us for the Feminist Futures Lecture Series when Dr. Megan Rivers-Moore speaks on Gringo Gulch: Sex, tourism, and social mobility in Costa Rica. Gringo Gulch considers the meanings that are made from participation in the sex industry, exploring how the purchase and sale of sex in San José, Costa Rica allows certain kinds of social and economic mobility for those involved. Focusing on the experiences of sex tourists, sex workers, and state employees, the book considers how the geopolitics of transnational tourism are played out in the embodied labour of sex workers and how the specific configurations of the sex industry in San José are tied to a variety of local, national, and global processes that reflect and produce particular intersections of gender, race, sexuality, and class.
Everyone welcome!