Rodriguez Juana Maria Rodriguez

Puta Life (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In Puta Life, Juana Maria Rodriguez 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. Rodriguez'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. Rodriguez 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, Rodriguez 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478024118
• Artikelnr.: 68955263

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