Kolboy : denial, disgust, and the production of value in male sex work in the Philippines /
Tadiar, Carlo.
Kolboy : denial, disgust, and the production of value in male sex work in the Philippines / Carlo Tadiar. - Quezon City : University of the Philippines Press, c2021. - 191 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes reference and index.
Introduction.--Chapter One : Context.--Chapter Two : Flesh.--Chapter Three : Theory.--Chapter Four : Symbols.--Chapter Five : The chain of signifiers.--Chapter Six : Culture.--Conclusion.--Afterword.--References.--Index.--About the author.
This book explores the traditional terms of the commerce in sex in this locality as modern notions of sex, gender, and sexuality brought by intensified globalization impact them. Based on fieldwork among kolboy, Kolboy sketches intimate portraits of individuals engaged in the trade, their interactions with each other and their clientele. Simultaneously, it reflects back on the anthropological enterprise of capturing otherness by manifesting the evolutionary trope that underlies it and other instruments of modernity.
9789715428545
MALE PROSTITUTION.--PHILIPPINES.
MALE PROSTITUTES.--PHILIPPINES.--SOCIAL ASPECTS.
HQ 119.4 P6 .T335 2021
Kolboy : denial, disgust, and the production of value in male sex work in the Philippines / Carlo Tadiar. - Quezon City : University of the Philippines Press, c2021. - 191 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes reference and index.
Introduction.--Chapter One : Context.--Chapter Two : Flesh.--Chapter Three : Theory.--Chapter Four : Symbols.--Chapter Five : The chain of signifiers.--Chapter Six : Culture.--Conclusion.--Afterword.--References.--Index.--About the author.
This book explores the traditional terms of the commerce in sex in this locality as modern notions of sex, gender, and sexuality brought by intensified globalization impact them. Based on fieldwork among kolboy, Kolboy sketches intimate portraits of individuals engaged in the trade, their interactions with each other and their clientele. Simultaneously, it reflects back on the anthropological enterprise of capturing otherness by manifesting the evolutionary trope that underlies it and other instruments of modernity.
9789715428545
MALE PROSTITUTION.--PHILIPPINES.
MALE PROSTITUTES.--PHILIPPINES.--SOCIAL ASPECTS.
HQ 119.4 P6 .T335 2021
