Sex Toys after Nafta
Transnational Class Politics, Erotic Consumerism, and the Economy of Female Pleasure in Mexico City
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2224967 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Tyburczy (University of California, Santa Barbara, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 123-152 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-6943 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/686755 |
| OpenAlex | W2529789335 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 20 |
This article focuses on the rising upper middle and upper class of twenty- and thirtysomething women in Mexico City and how examining the consumer practices of this privileged segment of Mexican society reveals the contours and intersections of pleasure-seeking (as an embodied, vernacular performance) and neoliberalism (as a macroeconomic philosophy dependent on global connectivity). The author argues that the visual, rhetorical, and architectural influences of furnishing homes, retail spaces, and the urban landscapes of Mexico City with limitless possibilities for erotic consumerism nevertheless fail to facilitate social and civic spaces with real opportunities for feminine and female-identified pleasures. Moreover, the economy of female pleasure in Mexico City unfolds within a transnational landscape that increasingly pits women who consume against feminized laborers who produce sex toys in Chinese factories
Aesthetics · Art · Consumerism · Economics · Economy · Embodied cognition · Middle class · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Pleasure · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rhetorical question · Social science · Sociology · Upper class · Vernacular · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |