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Lydia's open door : inside Mexico's most modern brothel / Patty Kelly

Author
Kelly, Patty, 1968-
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]
Copyright Date
©2008
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxii, 270 pages) : illustrations, map
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Modern sex in a modern city -- Hidden in plain sight: street prostitution -- Inside the Galactic Zone: regulating sex, regulating women -- Convergence: Panistas, prostitutes, and peasants -- "It began innocently": women of the ambiente -- Sellers and buyers -- The secrets we keep: sex, work, stigma -- Final thoughts.
Summary
In this groundbreaking ethnographic study, Patty Kelly examines the lives of the women who work in the Zona Galactica, a state-run brothel in Chiapas' capital city. By delving into lives that would otherwise go unremarked, Kelly documents the modernization of the sex industry during the neoliberal era in the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez and illustrates how state-regulated sex became part of a broader effort by government officials to bring modernity to Chiapas, one of Mexico's poorest and most conflicted states. Kelly's innovative approach locates prostitution in a political-economic context by treating it as work. Most valuably, she conveys her analysis through vivid portraits of the lives of the sex workers themselves and shows how the women involved are neither victims nor heroines.
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ISBN
0520941616 (electronic bk.)
9780520941618 (electronic bk.)
1281385735
9781281385734
9786611385736
6611385738
1435653815
9781435653818
9780520255357 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520255356 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520255364 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0520255364 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Digital File Characteristics
text file
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-253) and index.
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