Precarious Empowerment - Sexual Labor in the Coffee Shops of Chile''s Santiago

List of contents

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

About the author

Pilar Ortiz is a sociologist, writer, and media artist. She is 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.

Product details

• Authors: Pilar Ortiz
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032535869
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3253586-9
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Cultural Spaces
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; History, Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, Humanities, Feminism & feminist theory, Social and cultural history, Feminism and feminist theory, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, Santiago Metropolitan Region