Pilar Ortiz

Precarious Empowerment

Sexual Labor in the Coffee Shops of Chile's Santiago

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Produktbeschreibung

Precarious Empowerment: Sexual Labor in the Coffee Shops of Chile's Santiago provides a textured and telling exploration into the lives and experiences of sex workers in Chile, their encounters with discrimination and economic precarity, and their empowered resistance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032535869
• ISBN-10: 1032535865
• Artikelnr.: 72700941

Autorenporträt

Pilar Ortiz is a sociologist, writer, and media artist. A recent graduate of The Graduate Center at the City University of New York, her research examines socio-spatial inequalities and the role of class, race, and gender in the exchanges that take place in public life. She is a postdoctoral researcher at Instituto Milenio VioDemos and Universidad Alberto Hurtado, where she studies the structural violence that migrant women face in various cities and borders across Chile.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Coffee and Sex: The Invisibilization of Sexual Labor 2. Sexual Labor in
a Neoliberal Context 3. Mothers and Whores: Norms about Gender and
Sexuality 4. Racialized Bodies and Sexualities in 'Tinted Cafes' 5. Working
with the Body and Emotions Conclusion. Unfulfilled Demands for Recognition
Appendix I. On Embodied Ethnography and Politics of Representation