Description: Further DetailsTitle: Offshore AttachmentsCondition: NewFormat: PaperbackSubtitle: Oil and Intimacy in the CaribbeanISBN-10: 0520390814EAN: 9780520390812ISBN: 9780520390812Publisher: University of California PressRelease Date: 04/18/2023Description: Offshore Attachments reveals how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in the global oil economy. By the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch islands of Curaçao and Aruba housed the world’s largest oil refineries. To bolster this massive industrial experiment, oil corporations and political authorities offshored intimacy, circumventing laws regulating sex, reproduction, and the family in a bid to maximize profits and turn Caribbean subjects into citizens. Historian Chelsea Schields demonstrates how Caribbean people both embraced and challenged efforts to alter intimate behavior in service to the energy economy. Moving from Caribbean oil towns to European metropolises and examining such issues as sex work, contraception, kinship, and the constitution of desire, Schields narrates a surprising story of how racialized concern with sex shaped hydrocarbon industries as the age of oil met the end of empire.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 23mmItem Weight: 454gAuthor: Chelsea SchieldsGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Gender Sex & Relationships, LGBTQ+, HistoryType: IndustriesEdition: First EditionRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Offshore Attachments
Title: Offshore Attachments
Subtitle: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean
ISBN-10: 0520390814
EAN: 9780520390812
ISBN: 9780520390812
Release Date: 04/18/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Type: Industries
Edition: First Edition
Book Title: Offshore Attachments : Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 0.9 in
Topic: Gender Studies, Economics / General, Latin America / General, Caribbean & West Indies / General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Author: Chelsea Schields
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
