Dangerous Love : Sex Work, Drug Use, and the Pursuit of Intimacy in Tijuana, Mexico

Dangerous Love Sex Work, Drug Use, and the Pursuit of Intimacy in Tijuana, Mexico

The relationships between female sex workers and their noncommercial male partners are often assumed to be coercive and anchored in risk, dismissed as “pimp-prostitute” arrangements by researchers and the general public alike. Yet, these stereotypes unjustly erase the complexity of lives we imagine...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Syvertsen, Jennifer Leigh, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press 2022
[2022]
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
Prostitutes > Mexico > Tijuana (Baja California) > Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
sex work; drug use; intamicy; Mexico
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009684804106719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Dangerous Safe Havens
  • 1 Parejas
  • 2 Where Sex Ends and Emotions Begin
  • 3 Love in a War Zone
  • 4 Rewriting Risk
  • 5 (Not) Lost to Follow-Up
  • Conclusion: Love as a Pathway to Health Equity
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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