Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Desiring Costa Rica 3. Sexuality 4. Embodiment 5. Intimacy 6. Difference 7. Erotics 8. Conclusion

About the Author

Susan Frohlick is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Manitoba, Canada.

Reviews

"The book can serve as a valuable guide for any researcher intent on interrogating patterns of behaviors and the nuanced negotiations through which dominant ideologies come to be embodied in individual and social practices. It was well worth the money and time spent on it." – Jeremy Robinett, Department of Recreation. Sport and Tourism. University of Illinois. Urbana. Illinois. USA"This book accomplished its stated purpose of countering sterotypes and complicating understandings of intersections betweeen relational social practices involving sexuality and intamacy, tourist women and local men... The book can serve as a valuable guide for any researcher intent on interrogating patterns of behaviors and the nuanced negotiations through which dominant ideologies come to be embodied in individual and social practices."— Jeremy Robinett, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change"Frohlick's book is both theoretically sharp and a pleasure to read. This excellent contribution of our understanding of transnational sexuality and intamacy should be read (and taught) widely by anthropologists, sociologists, geographers and those interested in tourism studies, gender studies and Latin American and Caribbean studies."— Megan Rivers-Moore, Anthropologica