Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy

Love, Friendship, and Sex in Queer Mexico City

Anahi Russo Garrido

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781978807525, 9781978807532
• eBook ISBN: 9781978807549
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Mexican History
• Index: Social Sciences

Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy: Love, Friendship, and Sex in Queer Mexico City is the first ethnography in English to focus primarily on women's sexual and intimate cultures in Mexico. The book shows the transformation of intimacy in the lives of three generations of women in queer spaces in contemporary Mexico City, as their sexual citizenship changes, including references to same-sex marriage and anti-discrimination laws. The book shows how these individuals reconfigure relationships through marriage, polyamory, friendship, and sex. Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy suggests that "new" intimate cartographies are emerging in Mexico City, ultimately redefining relationships, gender, and mexicanidad. Building on ethnographic data collected over the past decade, including forty-five in-depth interviews with women between the ages of twenty-two and sixty-five participating in LGBT spaces, Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy shows how lesbian women (mainly cis, but some trans) negotiate friendship, same-sex marriage, polyamory, and sexual practices, reinventing love, eroticism, friendship, and ultimately the social organization of Latin American societies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction: Intimate Contestations—Love, Friendship, and Sex in Queer Mexico City
• 1. Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Otros Amores de Familia
• 2. On Friendship and the Production of Lesbiana Worlds
• 3. Sex-Stretching the Body: A New Erotic Cartography
• 4. Counter-mapping el Ambiente in Queer Times and Spaces
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• References
• Index
• About the Author