Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex

In Puta Life, Juana María Rodríguez probes the ways that sexual labor and Latina sexuality become visual...
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Author: Juana María Rodríguez
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Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex by Rodríguez, Juana María

Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex

$91.55

Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex

$91.55
Author: Juana María Rodríguez
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In Puta Life, Juana María Rodríguez probes the ways that sexual labor and Latina sexuality become visual phenomena. Drawing on state archives, illustrated biographies, documentary films, photojournalistic essays, graphic novels, and digital spaces, she focuses on the figure of the puta--the whore, that phantasmatic figure of Latinized feminine excess. Rodríguez's eclectic archive features the faces and stories of women whose lives have been mediated by sex work's stigmatization and criminalization--washerwomen and masked wrestlers, porn stars and sexiles. Rodríguez examines how visual tropes of racial and sexual deviance expose feminine subjects to misogyny and violence, attuning our gaze to how visual documentation shapes perceptions of sexual labor. Throughout this poignant and personal text, Rodríguez brings the language of affect and aesthetics to bear upon understandings of gender, age, race, sexuality, labor, disability, and migration. Highlighting the criminalization and stigmatization that surrounds sex work, she lingers on those traces of felt possibility that might inspire more ethical forms of relation and care.

Author: Juana María Rodríguez
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 04/07/2023
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.11w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9781478019497

About the Author
Juana María Rodríguez is Professor of Ethnic Studies, Performance Studies, and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings and Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces.

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