TurboConsumers™ in paradise: Tourism, civil rights, and Brazil's gay sex industry

American Ethnologist

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 666-682

  Mitchell, Gregory ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brazil; Consumerism; Gay identity; Male prostitution; Sex tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 81155152022     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01329.x     Document Type: Article

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