Lydia's Open Door

Lydia's Open Door
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9780520941618
ISBN-13 : 0520941616
Rating : 4/5 (616 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Lydia's Open Door by : Patty Kelly

Download or read book Lydia's Open Door written by Patty Kelly and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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's 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 Gutiérrez 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.

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