Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-170).
Summary:
This book contains a unique version of the history of Tijuana. Areli Velox questions "The Black Legend" - which presents the city as a place of vice and perversion - and also criticizes its idealization as a "land of opportunities." The author proposes a procedural analysis starting with the nationalist projects that, since the first half of the twentieth century, frame the disputes around the mandates of morality, sex and sexuality. This analysis constitutes a contribution to understanding the power relations, the politics of the body, and the categories of differentiation (by class, gender, and immigration status) that historically construct Tijuana, its symbolisms, and its ways of life. The book claims the power of feminist theories to build knowledge and reflexivity about the forms of social inequality (not only that which concerns the condition of women). Although the text refers to Tijuana, the feminist perspective that it proposes is useful to understand the historical experiences of subalternity - seen from the working class - and to understand cities and their borders as producers of social differentiation.
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