Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy: Love, Friendship, and Sex in Queer Mexico City [Paperback]

Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy: Love, Friendship, and Sex in Queer Mexico Cityis 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 Intimacysuggests that “new” intimate cartographies are emerging in Mexico City, ultimately redefining relationships, gender, andmexicanidad. 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 Intimacyshows 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.Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy: Love, Friendship, and Sex in Queer Mexico Cityis 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. Anahi Russo Garrido is an assistant professor of gender, women's, and sexuality studies at Metropolitan State University in Denver, Colorado.Contents

Introduction, Intimate Contestations: Love, Friendship lS4