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2046 CHASS INT NORTH
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Cabezas, Amalia L

Associate Professor

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Women's Studies


Biography

 

Degrees

PhD Ethnic and Women's Studies 1998

University of California, Berkeley

BA Women's and Latin American Studies 1992

Claremont Colleges, Pitzer College

Research Area

Ethnic Studies, Chicano and Latino Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Tourism and Leisure Studies, Sexualities Studies, Women's/Feminist/Gender Studies.

Publications

Books

Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic. Temple University Press, 2009. http://www.amazon.com/Economies-Desire-Tourism-Dominican-Republic/dp/1592137504/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244834332&sr=1-1


The Wages of Empire: Neoliberal Policies, Repression and Women’s Poverty. Paradigm Press, Boulder:Colorado. Amalia L. Cabezas, Ellen Reese and Marguerite Waller, editors. 2007. http://www.amazon.com/Wages-Empire-Neoliberal-Repression-Transnational/dp/1594513481/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244834332&sr=1-2

Economies of Desire: Sex Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic. Under contract from Temple University Press, 2008.


Journal Articles

“Tropical Blues: Tourism and Social Exclusion in the Dominican Republic.” Latin American Perspectives. May 2008.

“Emergent Subjects of Neoliberal Global Capitalism.” Social Identities. Amalia Cabezas, Ellen Reese, and Marguerite Waller, editors. 2006.

“The Eroticization of Labor in Cuba’s All-Inclusive Resorts: Performing Race, Class and Gender in the New Tourist Economy.” Social Identities. 2006.

“Desigualdad social y SIDA: el contexto neoliberal de la epidemia” Deslinde 35 abril-junio. Amalia Cabezas and Bernardo Useche. 2004.

“Between Love and Money: Sex, Tourism, and Citizenship in Cuba and the Dominican Republic.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture. 2004.

“Legal Challenges to and by Sex Workers/Prostitutes.” Cleveland Law Review. 2001.


Editor of Special Issues

"The Impact of Tourism in Latin America." Latin American Perspectives. Amalia Cabezas, and Tamar Diana Wilson, editors. 2008.

“Emergent Subjects of Neoliberal Global Capitalism.” Social Identities. Amalia Cabezas, Ellen Reese, and Marguerite Waller, editors. 2006.

Articles in Edited Anthologies

“Poverty and the Vicious Cycle of AIDS,” in The Wages of Empire: Neoliberal Policies, Repression and Women’s Poverty, ed. Cabezas, Amalia, Ellen Reese, and Marguerite Waller. Paradigm Press, Boulder: Colorado. Cabezas, Amalia and Bernardo Useche. 2007.

“Accidental Crossings: Sex, Tourism and Citizenship,” in Dialogue and Difference: Feminisms Challenge Globalization, ed. Marguerite Waller and Sylvia Marcos. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. 2005.

“Sexuality in the Marketplace,” in Labor Versus Empire, ed. Raul Fernandez, Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Vivian Price, David Smith Linda Trinh Vo. New York: Routledge. Amalia Cabezas and Bernardo Useche. 2004.

“On the Border of Love and Money: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic,” in Labor Versus Empire, ed. Raul Fernandez, Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Vivian Price, David Smith Linda Trinh Vo. New York: Routledge. 2004.

“Globalization, Sex Work and Women’s Rights,” in Globalization and Human Rights, ed. Alison Brysk. Berkeley, California:
University of California Press. 2002.

“Women’s Work Is Never Done: Sex Tourism in Sosúa, the Dominican Republic, in Sun, Sex and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean, ed. Kamala Kempadoo. Boulder, Colorado: Rowman and Littlefield. 1999.

“We Are a World of People: An Interview with Claudia Colimoro,” in Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition, ed. Kamala Kempadoo and Joe Doezema. New York: Routledge. 1998.

“Discourses of Prostitution: The Case of Cuba,” in Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition, ed. Kamala Kempadoo and Joe Doezema. New York: Routledge. 1998.