Sex and Salvation: Imagining the Future in MadagascarSex and Salvation chronicles the coming of age of a generation of women in Tamatave in the years that followed Madagascar’s economic liberalization. Eager to forge a viable future amid poverty and rising consumerism, many young women have entered the sexual economy in hope of finding a European husband. Just as many Westerners believe that young people break with the past as they enter adulthood, Malagasy citizens fear that these women have severed the connection to their history and culture. |
Contents
Theorizing Generational and Historical Change | 1 |
Shifting Paths to Social Mobility | 21 |
Three Disembedding and the Humiliation of Poverty | 46 |
Four The Changing Social Economy of the Female Life Course | 70 |
The Future in the Present | 92 |
Six Finding Vazaha? Navigating the Sexual Economy | 116 |