Cannibals and Ghosts: Forms of Capital, Immobility, and Dependence Among Former Javanese Sex Workers in South Bali (Indonesia)

Abstract

This chapter is intended as a reflection on the construction of a peculiar form of masculine subjectivity that originates in the context of sex work. It focuses on the status of being a former sex worker and the ways masculinity is learned, produced, regulated, and critiqued both individually and collectively in a particular context of migration, violence, and sex tourism. It is based on participant observation and ethnographic research conducted among a street gang of East Javanese sex workers and former sex workers who cater the homosexual market in South Bali. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved)