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University of Texas Press Love in the Drug War: Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border

Name: Love in the Drug War: Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border
Brand: University of Texas Press
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Product Description 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 who moved from rural Mexico to Reynosa to become sex workers and American missionaries who moved from the United States to forge a fellowship with those workers. Luna examines the entanglements, both intimate and financial, that define their lives. Using the concept of obligar, she delves into the connections that tie sex workers to their families, their clients, their pimps, the missionaries, and the drug dealers--and to the guilt, power, and comfort of faith. Love in the Drug War scrutinizes not only la zona and the people who work to survive there, but also Reynosa itself--including the influences of the United States--adding nuance and new understanding to the current US-Mexico border crisis. Review [A] sensitive and theoretically rich ethnography...[Love in the Drug War] is a compelling, approachable, and very teachable ethnographic perspective on sexual labor, emotion, and racialized, gendered, and classed subjectivities on the border. It also offers an intimate lens on the effects of the militarized war on drugs on vulnerable populations. The book advances the creative power of queer theory and ethnography to expand the boundaries of human understanding.-- "General Anthropology" (3/18/2021 12:00:00 AM) A compelling resource for understanding the construction and negotiation of moral, economic, material, and spiritual value in the context of the drug war on the Mexico-US border...[Luna] provides a rich example of how structural inequalities shape relations of intimacy and value-making in the borderlands...beautifully written and methodologically rigorous...Love in the Drug War is an engaging and necessary read for anyone interested in love, sexuality, and the borderlands.-- "Humanity & Society" (3/18/2021 12:00:00 AM) The lives of people in two immigrant groups in Reynosa, Mexico, illuminate morality and necessity and conversion and survival within the context of vice tourism and a protracted drug war...Luna situates the sex worker/missionary dynamic within the context of a narcoeconomy and the complexities of narcoviolence that places the lives of the most vulnerable in Mexico in grave danger...Recommended.-- "CHOICE" (2/1/2021 12:00:00 AM) About the Author Sarah Luna is the Kathryn A. McCarthy Assistant Professor in Women's Studies in the Department of Anthropology and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Tufts University, with a focus on issues of sexual labor, migration, race, borderlands, and queer studies. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago. She is a former National Endowment for the Humanities Scholar (2015), and United States Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad Fellowship in Mexico (2009) recipient among other honors.

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Brand: University of Texas Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1477320490
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 14 April 2020
Listed Since: 01 October 2019

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