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Puta life
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- Book Synopsis
- In Puta Life, Juana Mar+a Rodr+guez 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. Rodr+guez'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. Rodr+guez 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, Rodr+guez 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.
- About The Author
- Juana Mar+a Rodr+guez 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.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781478019497
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Duke University Press, (09 May 2023)
- Number of Pages
- 288
- Weight
- 544 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 x 19 mm
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