Kamala Kempadoo

"Sex Work and Sexual Rights in the Caribbean"

Monday, Nov. 6, 2006
2:30 p.m.
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201

Sponsored by OSU Women in Development.

Kamala Kempadoo is Professor of Sociology and Interim Director of the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at the School of Women's Studies at York University in Toronto.

She specializes in transnational and Caribbean feminisms; sex work and sexual-economic relations; the global trafficking of persons; and intersections of race, gender and class.

Kempadoo is author or editor of Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights (Paradigm, 2005), Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race and Sexual Labor (Routledge, 2004), Sun, Sex and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean (Rowman and Littlefield, 1999), and Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition (Routledge, 1998).

Kempadoo has a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Amsterdam, and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado.