Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 0520941616
9780520941618
1281385735
9781281385734
9780520255357
0520255356
9780520255364
0520255364
9786611385736
6611385738
1435653815
9781435653818
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-253) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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.
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| Other form: | Print version: Kelly, Patty, 1968- Lydia's open door. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008
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