Offshore Attachments - Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean (Paperback)

In this highly original work, historian Chelsea Schields illuminates 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 Curacao 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. Offshore Attachments reveals that, from boom to bust, Caribbean people challenged and embraced efforts to alter intimate behaviors in service of the energy economy, molding the industry from the ground up. 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.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Chelsea Schields
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	315
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-39081-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > Sexual relations Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	0-520-39081-4
Barcode:	9780520390812

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