Puta life : seeing Latinas, working sex / Juana María Rodríguez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodríguez, Juana María, author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Dissident acts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hispanic American women in mass media.

Women in mass media.

Sex workers in mass media.

Prostitutes--Public opinion.

Prostitutes.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 272 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"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 the stigma and criminalization surrounding sex work-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 invokes 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Women in public : biopolitics, portraiture, and poetics

Colonial echoes and aesthetic allure : tracking the genres of puta life

Carnal knowledge, interpretive practices : authorizing Vanessa del Rio

Touching alterity : the women of Casa Xochiquetzal

Seeing, sensing, feeling : Adela Vázquez's amazing past

Toward a conclusion that does not die or a subject that is allowed to live.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Rodriguez, Juana Maria. Puta life.

ISBN:

9781478024118

1478024119

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.