Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore: The Story of a Woman Who Decided to be a Puta

In the early 1970s, while living at home with her conservative middle-class family and studying at the...
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Author: Gabriela Leite
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Language: English
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Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore: The Story of a Woman Who Decided to be a Puta by Leite, Gabriela

Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore: The Story of a Woman Who Decided to be a Puta

€56,57

Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore: The Story of a Woman Who Decided to be a Puta

€56,57
Author: Gabriela Leite
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In the early 1970s, while living at home with her conservative middle-class family and studying at the University of S?o Paulo, Gabriela Leite decided to become a sex worker. From her first client in a tiny room in downtown S?o Paulo to the launch of an exuberant clothing line designed for sex workers in Rio de Janeiro thirty years later, Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore tells the fascinating story of Leite's bold and unique life in her own words. After helping to organize Brazil's first protests by sex workers against police brutality, she moved to Rio de Janeiro, where she quickly became ensconced in the city's storied red-light district. From there, Leite built a national network of politicized sex workers, worked for HIV/AIDS prevention, and participated in Brazil's robust new civil society after its return to democracy in 1985 following a twenty-one-year military dictatorship. Insistent on advocating for the sex worker's comprehensive human rights, Leite pioneered an irreverent grassroots Latin American feminism, which critiqued moral hypocrisies and Christian conservatism while affirming pleasure, joy, and agency. Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore also includes a foreword by artist and activist Carol Leigh.

Author: Gabriela Leite
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 10/29/2024
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9781478030508

About the Author
Gabriela Leite (1951-2013) was a sex worker, activist and organizer, and the founder of Brazil's sex-worker movement.

Meg Weeks is Assistant Professor at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida.

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