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

Precarious Empowerment: Sexual Labor in the Coffee Shops of Chile’s Santiago provides a textured and telling exploration into the lives and experiences of sex workers in Chile, their encounters with discrimination and economic precarity, and their empowered resistance.

Set in and around ‘tinted cafes’—spaces hidden from public view where women dance for their male clients and perform sexual services—within Chile’s capital city of Santiago, author Pilar Ortiz traces connections between sex wo...