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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825077103321

Autore

Kelly Patty <1968->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008

ISBN

1-281-38573-5

0-520-94161-6

Edizione

[Reprint 2019]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Disciplina

306.74/2097275

Soggetti

Prostitutes - Mexico - Tuxtla Gutierrez

Prostitution - Mexico - Tuxtla Gutierrez

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-253) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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, this book documents the modernization of the sex industry during the neoliberal era in the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez.