Brennan, Denise. Women Work, Men Sponge, and Everyone Gossips: Macho Men and Stigmatized/ing
Women in a Sex Tourist Town. Georgetown University, pg 705-733.
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This article speaks to a gender shift in labor duties and expectations in relation to the sex trade.
This article focuses on the difference between when husbands go internationally or nationally abroad to
work and when wifes do the same. The main example in this article speaks to an area of the Dominican
Republic where women go to Sosua’ to be prostitutes and work in the sex trade industry to earn and
send home money to their families. “Examination of Sosua’s gossip about sex and money, money earned
either in the sex industry overseas…reveals three interrelated issues. Women’s capacity for power,
control, and opportunity in a globalized economy, the effect of women’s earning power on gender
relations and expectations and women’s roles in not only challenging traditional gender ideologies
through their earning capacity but also in perpetrating them through their gossip o other women. “ I
plan to use this article to help move our discussion into a look at what happens when these roles are
reversed, as they are in this case.