“My Cocoa Is between My Legs”: Sex as Work among Ghanaian Women

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Laboring in Transnational Public Spheres
6. Race Women: Cultural Productions and Radical Labor Politics 9
7. Of Poetics and Politics: The Border Journeys of Luisa Moreno 28
8. Caring and Inequality 46
9. Economic Crisis and Political Mobilization: Reshaping Cultures of Resistance in Tampa’s Communities of Color, 1929—1939 62
10. Part II. The Global Politics of Labor
11. Surviving Globalization: Immigrant Women Workers in Late Capitalist America 85
12. Harassment of Female Farmworkers: Can the Legal System Help? 103
13. Caribbean Women, Domestic Labor, and the Politics of Transnational Migration 116
14. Creatively Coping with Crisis and Globalization: Zimbabwean Businesswomen in Crocheting and Knitting 134
15. Part III. Surviving the Global Economy
16. Of Land and Sea: Women Entrepreneurs in Negril, Jamaica 161
17. “My Cocoa Is between My Legs”: Sex as Work among Ghanaian Women 182
18. Work as a Duty and as a Joy: Understanding the Role of Work in the Lives of Ghanaian Female Traders of Global Consumer Items 206
19. Gendering Sugar: Women’s Disempowerment in Sri Lankan Sugar Production 221
20. Contributors 247
21. Index 253