David Brazil: No Money No Honey

[Teo Kok Eng]

This is really an old book published at a time when the WLs in Geylang are mostly malaysians. What is surprising to me is that it is used as a textbook in a university.

http://www.drabruzzi.com/Gender%20Syllabus.html

Anthropology of Sex and Gender
Fall 2005

Dr. William S. Abruzzi
106d Ettinger Bldg.
Office: (484) 664-3437
[email protected]

Class Time:
Wednesday: 1:30 - 4:20
Office Hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday: 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Required Textbooks:
1. E. Babatunde, Women's Rights vs. Women's Rites: A Study of Circumcision among the Ketu Yoruba of South Western Nigeria. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press. 1998.
2. P.J. Caplan & J. B. Caplan, Thinking Critically about Research on Sex and Gender. NY: Harper Collins. 1994.
3. R.B. Felson, Violence & Gender Reexamined. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. 2002.
4. S. Nanda, Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of India. Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1999.
5. A. Young, Women Who Become Men: Albanian Sworn Virgins. Oxford University Press, 2000.

Recommended Books:
1. E. Friedl, Women and Men: An Anthropologist's View. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press. 1994.
http://www.drabruzzi.com/Gender Syllabus.html
Anthropology of Sex and Gender
Fall 2005

Dr. William S. Abruzzi
106d Ettinger Bldg.
Office: (484) 664-3437
[email protected]

Class Time:
Wednesday: 1:30 - 4:20
Office Hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday: 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Required Textbooks:
1. E. Babatunde, Women's Rights vs. Women's Rites: A Study of Circumcision among the Ketu Yoruba of South Western Nigeria. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press. 1998.
2. P.J. Caplan & J. B. Caplan, Thinking Critically about Research on Sex and Gender. NY: Harper Collins. 1994.
3. R.B. Felson, Violence & Gender Reexamined. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. 2002.
4. S. Nanda, Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of India. Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1999.
5. A. Young, Women Who Become Men: Albanian Sworn Virgins. Oxford University Press, 2000.
Recommended Books:
1. E. Friedl, Women and Men: An Anthropologist's View. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press. 1994.
2. D. Brazil, No Money! No Honey! A Candid Look at Sex-for-Sale in Singapore. Singapore: Angsana Books. 1998.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Private Dancer by Stephen Leather is a much better read....