Kamala Kempadoo
Kamala Kempadoo is Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University and a former director of the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought. She teaches Caribbean studies, transnational feminisms, sex work studies, Black Studies, and critical perspectives in gender and development. Publications include Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered (Paradigm 2005/2012); Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race and Sexual Labour (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). She lectures internationally and as lived and worked in Britain, the Netherlands, the USA, several countries in the Dutch- and English-speaking Caribbean, and, since 2002, in Canada.
