Love in the Drug War : : Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border / / Sarah Luna.
Sex, drugs, religion, and love are potent combinations in la zona, a regulated prostitution zone in the city of Reynosa, across the border from Hidalgo, Texas. During the years 2008 and 2009, a time of intense drug violence, Sarah Luna met and built relationships with two kinds of migrants, women wh...
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I DRUG WORK AND SEX WORK IN REYNOSA
- CHAPTER 1 Dinero Fácil: The Gendered Moral Economies of Drug Work and Sex Work
- CHAPTER 2 Rumors of Violence and Feelings of Vulnerability
- PART II THE INTIMATE AND ECONOMIC OBLIGATIONS OF SEX WORKERS
- CHAPTER 3 Stigmatized Whores, Obligated Mothers, and Respectable Prostitutes
- CHAPTER 4 "Sometimes We, as Mothers, Are to Blame": Drug-Addicted Sex Workers and the Politics of Blame
- PART III MISSIONARY PROJECTS IN BOYSTOWN
- CHAPTER 5 The Love Triad between Sex Workers, Missionaries, and God
- CHAPTER 6 Love and Conflict in Sex Worker/ Missionary Relationships
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index