Lydia's Open Door (eBook)

Inside Mexico's Most Modern Brothel

Patty Kelly (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
296 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-94161-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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's 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 Gutiérrez 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.4.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Agency • brothel • Capitalism • commercial sex • condoms • conservative politics • Desire • Exploitation • Female sexuality • Feminism • Feminist Anthropology • Free Market • galactic zone • Gender Studies • Human Trafficking • Latin America • Latinx • legal prostitution • Mexico • Migrant women • Morality • Nonfiction • Pan • panista • Pornography • Prostitution • Red Light District • resistance • sex positivity • Sex Trafficking • Sexual Health • Sexuality • Sex Work • Sex Workers • Shame • Sociology • STDs • Stigma • street prostitution • Women • women studies
• ISBN-10: 0-520-94161-6 / 0520941616
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-94161-8 / 9780520941618