02092 a2200313 4500 20250526161934.0 250430042013GB 8 eng 9780415629348 BB Taylor & Francis GBP 150.00 BB 01 eng JB thema KNP thema GTM thema 1FM bisac JF bic KNSG bic GTB bic 1FM bisac SOC008000 bisac SOC053000 bisac 306.7409596 bisac Heidi Hoefinger 1051 Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia Professional Girlfriends and Transactional Relationships 1 Oxford Routledge 20130418 232 p Dealing 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. Focusing 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. Interdisciplinary 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. 10647 10647