The ‘SONY NIGHTCLUB’: Rural Brothels, Gender Violence, and Development in Coastal Ecuador

Autor:	Karin Friederic
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Archeology Human rights media_common.quotation_subject Gender studies Human sexuality Frontier Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) State (polity) Anthropology Masculinity Ethnography Domestic violence Sociology The Imaginary media_common
Zdroj:	Ethnos. 79:650-676
ISSN:	1469-588X 0014-1844
DOI:	10.1080/00141844.2013.817460
Popis:	In the Ecuadorian public imaginary, Manabi province is constructed as a lawless frontier. Manaba men are characterized for their aggressive masculinity, robust and primitive sexuality, and their proclivity towards resolving conflict with violence. This paper examines community debates about brothels and healthy sexuality in a rural coastal region where the state is expanding its reach into domestic life via the regulation of sexual intimacies and family violence. Local debates about healthy sexuality embody the historically contested and currently changing nature of state–community relationships in this previously marginalized region. While certain community factions invoke modernizing discourses of women's rights in their struggle to shut down brothels and mitigate family violence, others argue for unregulated sexuality as a way to diminish violence. Drawing from over 10 years of ethnographic research on gender, violence, and human rights in Ecuador, this paper reveals the co-construction of rura...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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