Puta Life

Seeing Latinas, Working Sex

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Av Juana María Rodríguez, Juana Maria Rodriguez

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-04-07
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieDissident Acts
Antal sidor277
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9781478019497

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Acknowledgments viiIntroduction 1Part I. Archival Encounters and Affective Traces: Visual Genealogies of Puta Life1. Women in Public: Biopolitics, Portraiture, and Poetics 372. Colonial Echoes and Aesthetic Allure: Tracking the Genres of Puta Life 68Part II. Visions, Voices, and Impressions Left Behind: Representing Puta Life3. Carnal Knowledge, Interpretive Practices: Authorizing Vanessa del Rio 1074. Touching Alterity: The Women of Casa Xochiquetzal 1405. Seeing, Sensing, Feeling: Adela VÁzquez’s Amazing Past 180Epilogue: Toward a Conclusion That Does Not Die or a Subject That Is Allowed to Live 211Notes 215References 243Index 259

"Puta Life is a rigorous and nuanced contribution to affirming sex workers’ lives. This is reason alone to read it. But I cherish Puta Life because it offered me a new way of sensing my mother’s painful past and my own history of abuse beyond exposure. Above all, Puta Life gifted me with a deep respect for all I can never know about other women’s lives." - Elizabeth Hall (Full Stop) "A groundbreaking contribution to the fields of Latinx, sexuality, queer, porn, fat, and women and feminist studies. Puta Life urgently demonstrates that the topic of sex work must be seriously taken up in all these fields."- Yessica Garcia Hernandez (GLQ) "Both educative and intimate, Puta Life achieves its intervention into the stigma attached to sex workers that has been cast onto all those who are 'female and femme, sexual and unashamed' (15), paving the way for new possibilities of rendering puta life." - Erin L. McCutcheon (Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture)