Main Publications

Books and Edited Collections

Caribbean Feminist Research Methods for Gender and Sexuality Studies (Kempadoo, Kamala, Halimah DeShong and Charmaine Crawford , eds.) Special issue of Caribbean Review of Gender Studies 7 (Dec 2013) http://sta.uwi.edu/crgs/

From Bleeding Hearts to Critical Thinking: Exploring the Issue of Human Trafficking (Kempadoo, Kamala and Darya Davydova, eds). Toronto: Centre for Feminist Research, York University, 2012. http://cfr.info.yorku.ca/fbh/

Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights (Kempadoo, Kamala with Jyoti Sanghera and Bandana Pattanaik, eds). Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2005 (Second edition 2012).

Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race and Sexual Labor. New York: Routledge 2004. (Also available as an E-book).

Sun, Sex and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean (Kempadoo, Kamala ed.). Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. 1999.

Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition (Kempadoo, Kamala and Jo Doezema, eds). New York: Routledge 1998.

Reports, Articles, Chapters

“The Modern-day White (Wo)Man’s Burden: Trends in Anti-trafficking and Anti-slavery Campaigns” Journal of Human Trafficking 1 (2015).

 “’Whoring’, ‘Boopsing’ and Other Business: A Situational Analysis of Sex Work and the Sex Industry in the CARICOM (with Oonya Kempadoo, Althea Perkins and Andy Taitt).  Trinidad: UNAIDS CAR-RST, 2010.

Prostitution, Sex Work and Transactional Sex in the English-, Dutch- and French-Speaking Caribbean: A Literature Review of Definitions, Laws and Research. PANCAP/ CARICOM, 2009. http://pancap.org/docs/Global_Fund_Studies/Sex_Work_Final_Report.pdf

“Caribbean Sexuality: Mapping the Field” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies. Issue 3, November 2009. http://www2.sta.uwi.edu/crgs/november2009/journals/Kempadoo.pdf

“The War on Human Trafficking in the Caribbean” Race and Class Vol. 49. no 2 ( 2007): 79-84.

“Victims and Agents of Crime: The New Crusade Against Trafficking” In Global Lockdown: Race, Gender and the Prison Industrial Complex, ed. Julia Sudbury. New York: Routledge, 2005, 35 -55.

“Prostitution and Sex Work Studies.” In Companion to Gender Studies, edited by Philomena Essed, Audrey Kobayashi, and David Theo Goldberg. Blackwell Publishers, 2004: 255-265.

“Theorizing Sexual Relations in the Caribbean: Prostitution and the Problem of the ‘Exotic.’” In Confronting Power, Theorizing Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in the Caribbean, edited by Eudine Barriteau. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2003.

“Free-lancers, Temporary Wives and Beachboys: Researching Sex Work in the Caribbean” Feminist Review No. 67 (Spring 2001): 39-63.

“Women of Color and the Global Sex Trade: Transnational Feminist Perspectives.” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism Vol.1. no 3 (Spring 2001): 28-51.

Factors that Shape the Initiation of Early Sexual Activity Among Adolescent Boys and Girls:  A Study in Three Communities in Jamaica (and Leith Dunn). Report to UNICEF and UNFPA. University of the West Indies, Nov. 2001. http://www.unicef.org/evaldatabase/index_14463.html

"Negotiating Cultures: A 'Dogla' Perspective." In  Matikor: The Politics of Identity for Indo-Caribbean Women ed. Roseanne Kanhai. University of the West Indies, School of Continuing Education, 1999: 103-113.

“Globalizing Sex Worker Rights,” Introduction toGlobal Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition. New York: Routledge. 1998: 1-28.

"Prostitution, Marginality and Empowerment: Caribbean Women in the Sex Trade." Beyond Law:  5.14 (March 1996): 69-84.