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Sex and Salvation (Hardcover, New)
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Sex and Salvation (Hardcover, New)
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"Sex 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 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. Jennifer Cole's elegant analysis
shows how this notion of generational change is both wrong and
consequential. It obscures the ways young people draw on
long-standing ideas of gender and sexuality, it ignores how
urbanites relate to their rural counterparts, and it neglects the
relationship between these husband-seeking women and their elders
who join Pentecostal churches. And yet, as talk about the women
circulates through the city's neighborhoods, bars, Internet cafes,
and churches, it teaches others new ways of being. Cole's
sophisticated depiction of how a generation's coming of age
contributes to social change eschews a narrow focus on crisis.
Instead, she reveals how fantasies of rupture and conceptions of
the changing life course shape the everyday ways that people create
the future.
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