The Global Political Economy of Sex Desire, Violence, and Insecurity in Mediterranean Nation States

This book examines the movement of domestic and sex workers to Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey and demonstrates that gender, race (ethnicity) , and nationality are crucial elements in the constitution of the desire economies which are informed by the dominant neoliberal understanding of globalization and its neocolonial logic: the desire for power and security, and the drive to consume the labor and bodies of the Other.

Anna M. Agathangelou is Lecturer at the University of Houston-Clear Lake and Director of Global Change Institute, Nicosia Cyprus.

Sex And Domestic Work In The Peripheries: The Fenced-Off Economies of Desire * Invisible and Silent Female Migrant Reproductive Labor: Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey * Peripheral Economies Working and Playing Hard: Social Reproduction and Racial and Sexual Desire in the Mediterranean * Desiring Power in the European Union: Peripheral Development and "Mimicry" * National Desires for Security * Conclusion: A Global Political Economy of Sex? Sex And Domestic Work In The Peripheries: The Fenced-Off Economies Of Desire * Invisible and Silent Female Migrant Reproductive Labor: Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey * Peripheral Economies Working and Playing Hard: Social Reproduction and Racial and Sexual Desire in the Mediterranean * Desiring Power in the European Union: Peripheral Development and "Mimicry" * National Desires for Security * Conclusion: A Global Political Economy of Sex?