Sex and Salvation: Imagining the Future in Madagascar

by Jennifer Cole

Book Overview

Sex and Salvation chronicles the coming of age of a generation of women in Tamatave in the years that followed Madagascar's economic liberalization. Eager to forge a viable future amid poverty and rising consumerism, many young women have entered the sexual economy in hope of finding a European husband. Just as many Westerners believe that young people break with the past as they enter adulthood, Malagasy citizens fear that these women have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226113310
• ISBN13: 9780226113319
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.8"