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Puta Life

Download or Read eBook Puta Life PDF written by Juana María Rodríguez and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Puta Life
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : 9781478024118
ISBN-13 : 1478024119
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Book Synopsis Puta Life by : Juana María Rodríguez

Book excerpt: 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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