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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Syvertsen, Jennifer Leigh, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press 2022
[2022]
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Prostitutes > Mexico > Tijuana (Baja California) > Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
sex work; drug use; intamicy; Mexico
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009684804106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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