Lydia's Open Door : Inside Mexico's Most Modern Brothel / / Patty Kelly

• Autore: Kelly Patty
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Edizione: Reprint 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.74/2097275
• Soggetto topico: Prostitutes; Tuxtla Gutie ́rrez
• Soggetto non controllato: 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; sex work; sex workers; sexual health; sexuality; shame; sociology; stds; stigma; street prostitution; women studies; women
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- ONE. Modern Sex in a Modern City -- TWO. Hidden in Plain Sight -- THREE. Inside the Galactic Zone -- FOUR. Convergence -- FIVE. "It Began Innocently" -- SIX. Sellers and Buyers -- SEVEN. The Secrets We Keep -- EIGHT. Final Thoughts -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Lydia's Open Door
• ISBN: 1-281-38573-5; 0-520-94161-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782405503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II