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City of omens : a search for the missing women of the borderlands /

For decades, American hungers sustained Tijuana. In this scientific detective story, a public health expert reveals what happens when a border city's lifeline is brutally severed. Despite its reputation as a carnival of vice, Tijuana was, until recently, no more or less violent than neighboring...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Werb, Dan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, [2019]
Subjects:
Epidemiology > Mexico > Tijuana (Baja California)
Women > Mortality > Mexico > Tijuana (Baja California)
Women > Mexico > Tijuana (Baja California) > Social conditions.
Women > Crimes against > Mexico > Tijuana (Baja California)
Violent crimes > Mexico > Tijuana (Baja California)
Prostitution > Mexico > Tijuana (Baja California)
Public health > Mexico > Tijuana (Baja California)
Women's Health.
Battered Women.
Crime Victims.
Violence.
Sex Work.
Socioeconomic Factors.
Mexico.
Table of Contents:
  • The host. Welcome to El Bordo
  • The price of something purchased
  • The threshold
  • The environment. The canyons and the mesa
  • The beat
  • Shore leave
  • The pathogen. Mythmaking
  • Modes of control
  • Causation
  • Containment. And yet they love them
  • The bottom line
  • Endless variation.