Lydia's open door : inside Mexico's most modern brothel / / Patty Kelly
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| Autore: |
Kelly Patty <1968->
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| Titolo: |
Lydia's open door : inside Mexico's most modern brothel / / Patty Kelly
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 |
| Edizione: | Reprint 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.74/2097275 |
| Soggetto topico: | Prostitutes - Mexico - Tuxtla Gutierrez |
| Prostitution - Mexico - Tuxtla Gutierrez | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Lydia's open door |
| ISBN: | 9781281385734 |
| 1281385735 | |
| 9780520941618 | |
| 0520941616 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910970635203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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