Eating Spring Rice is the first major ethnographic study of HIV/AIDS in China. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic research (1995-2005), primarily in Yunnan Province, Sandra Teresa Hyde chronicles the rise of the HIV epidemic from the years prior to the Chinese governm…
A woman’s sexuality has historically been utilized as an economic resource for women who otherwise would have no bargaining or monetary power. Despite the extensive history of voluntary sex work in human experiences, many sex workers in the United States (U.S.) still experience …
This thesis is an exploratory case study of white slavery and the accompanying white slavery panic that were flourishing in New York in the 19th to 20th century. The research explores these topics by describing historical evolution of the term white slavery, its racial and gende…
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the transnational sex trade that has developed between Turkey and the former Soviet Union in the post Cold War era. It is based on 16 months of field research in Trabzon, a port town on the northeastern Turkish Black Sea coast, where…
Living Openly and Notoriously explores the intersection of federal immigration control and state efforts to control women’s sexuality in the United States. To interrogate, surveil, detain, and deport immigrant women for prostitution, officials at New York’s Ellis Island, San Fra…
The influence of traditional Islamic values on Turkish policy making has resulted in further marginalization, stigmatization, and socially disparate outcomes for those who do not fit the dominant hetero-normative gender norms and sexual identities. A macro level analysis of the …
Through ethnography, this dissertation chronicles how a West African variant of HIV, known as HIV-2, emerged as a knowable entity. It examines how a nation like Senegal, which exists at the margins of capitalism and the periphery of the biomedical knowledge empire, has come to o…
This dissertation investigates the relationship between marriage markets and fertility in developing countries. Chapter 1 considers the impact of family planning on dowry transfers. We construct a model of the marriage market in which prospective mates anticipate the outcome of …
