Pleasures and Perils follows a group of young girls living on Nevis, an island society in the Eastern Caribbean. Curtis shows that girls are often caught between conflicting discourses of Christian teachings about chastity, public health cautions about safe sex, and media enticements about consumer delights. Sexuality's contradictions are exposed: power and powerless-ness, self-determination and cultural control, violence and pleasure.
- ISBN10 661207857X
- ISBN13 9786612078576
- Publish Date 9 February 2009 (first published 1 January 2009)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 September 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Rutgers University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 223
- Language English