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Lydia's open door : inside Mexico's most modern brothel
- Author
- Kelly, Patty, 1968-
- Title
- Lydia's open door : inside Mexico's most modern brothel / Patty Kelly.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
- Description
- xxii, 270 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents only> http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0722/2007028981.html
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-253) and index.
- Contents
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- 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'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 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.
- Kinsey subjects
- Prostitutes--Mexico--Tuxtla Gutiérrez. Prostitution--Mexico--Tuxtla Gutiérrez. Prostitution research--Mexico--Tuxtla Gutiérrez. Legal aspects of prostitution--Mexico--Tuxtla Gutiérrez. Prostitution laws--Mexico--Tuxtla Gutiérrez. Brothels--Mexico--Tuxtla Gutiérrez.
- ISBN
- 9780520255357 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520255356 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780520255364 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0520255364 (pbk. : alk. paper)