‘I’m More Sexy Here’: Erotic Subjectivities of Female Tourists in the ‘Sexual Paradise’ of the Costa Rican Caribbean

Gendered Mobilities

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 129-142

  Frohlick, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

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EID: 85145118117     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315584201-11     Document Type: Chapter

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