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Zona Norte : the post-structural body of erotic dancers and sex workers in Tijuana, San Diego and Los Angeles : an auto/ethnography of desire and addiction / by Michael Hemmingson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hemmingson, Michael A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prostitution--California--San Diego--Cross-cultural studies.
- Prostitution.
- Prostitution--California--Los Angeles--Cross-cultural studies.
- Prostitution--Mexico--Tijuana (Baja California)--Cross-cultural studies.
- Self--Cross-cultural studies.
- Self.
- Identity (Psychology)--Cross-cultural studies.
- Identity (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Zona Norte: The Post-Structural Body of Erotic Dancers and Sex Workers in Tijuana, San Diego and Los Angeles: An Auto/ethnography of Desire and Addiction started out as an ethnographic study of prostitution on both sides of the U.S./Mexican border and, as cultural anthropologist Michael Hemmingson explains, turned inward as a study of the self, or what is referred to as "auto/ethnography" in today's lexicon of qualitative research. The author studies himself within the culture of the Other --...
- Contents:
- Proem: Tijuana: End of the Line
- Tijuana/San Diego Sexualities: An Auto/Ethnographic Approach to Sex Workers on Both Sides of La Linea
- Excursus A
- San Diego: Places to Find Prostitution
- Cyber-Hookers: Off the Street and onto Craigslist
- Excursus B
- Borderlandia Representations: Tijuana in Film, Literature, and TV
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- Excursus C
- Child Prostitution
- Border Reflections on an Over-the-Counter Drug
- Excursus D
- Negative Encounters with the Tijuana Police
- Field Notes
- San Diego: An Auto/ethnographic Critique on the Post-Structural Body of the Southern Californian Exotic Dancer
- Los Angeles Auto/ethnography: An Essay on the Reflexive Relationship in the Filed
- Excursus E
- Reflexive Relationships and the Ethics of Sex in Ethnographic Field. Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [178]-194) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Hemmingson, Michael A. Zona Norte : the post-structural body of erotic dancers and sex workers in Tijuana, San Diego and Los Angeles : an autoethnography of desire and addiction
- ISBN:
- 1-282-33445-X
- 9786612334450
- 1-4438-1201-3
- OCLC:
- 827209205
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