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Lydia's open door : inside Mexico's most modern brothel / Patty Kelly.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kelly, Patty, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prostitutes--Mexico--Tuxtla Gutierrez.
- Prostitutes.
- Prostitution--Mexico--Tuxtla Gutierrez.
- Prostitution.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2019
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-253) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781281385734
- 1281385735
- 9780520941618
- 0520941616
- OCLC:
- 437212128
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