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Title: Lydia\'s Open Door
Condition: New
Description: In this groundbreaking ethnographic study, Patty Kelly 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, Kelly documents the modernization of the sex industry during the neoliberal era in the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez and illustrates how state-regulated sex became part of a broader effort by government officials to bring modernity to Chiapas, one of Mexico\'s poorest and most conflicted states. Kelly\'s innovative approach locates prostitution in a political-economic context by treating it as work. Most valuably, she conveys her analysis through vivid portraits of the lives of the sex workers themselves and shows how the women involved are neither victims nor heroines.
Author: Patty Kelly
EAN: 9780520255364
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Item Weight: 408g
ISBN-10: 0520255364
ISBN: 9780520255364
Item Length: 152mm
Item Height: 229mm
Item Width: 18mm
Genre: Society & Culture
Release Date: 04/02/2008
Type: Sexual Behaviour
Subtitle: Inside Mexico\'s Most Modern Brothel
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Topic: LGBTQ+, Gender Sex & Relationships, Social Sciences
Release Year: 2008
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