Juana María Rodríguez

Puta Life

Seeing Latinas, Working Sex

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the figure of the puta—the whore, that phantasmatic figure of Latinized feminine sexual excess—Juana María Rodríguez probes the ways that sexual labor and Latina sexuality become visual phenomena.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 162mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 687g
• ISBN-13: 9781478016854
• ISBN-10: 147801685X
• Artikelnr.: 64369300

Autorenporträt

Juana María Rodríguez

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction  1
Part I. Archival Encounters and Affective Traces: Visual Genealogies of
Puta Life
1. Women in Public: Biopolitics, Portraiture, and Poetics  37
2. Colonial Echoes and Aesthetic Allure: Tracking the Genres of Puta Life 
68
Part II. Visions, Voices, and Impressions Left Behind: Representing Puta
Life
3. Carnal Knowledge, Interpretive Practices: Authorizing Vanessa del Rio 
107
4. Touching Alterity: The Women of Casa Xochiquetzal  140
5. Seeing, Sensing, Feeling: Adela Vázquez’s Amazing Past  180
Epilogue: Toward a Conclusion That Does Not Die or a Subject That Is
Allowed to Live  211
Notes  215
References  243
Index  259