Puta life : seeing Latinas, working sex /

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Author / Creator:	Rodríguez, Juana María, author.
Imprint:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Description:	xiii, 271 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Dissident acts Dissident acts.
Subject:	Hispanic American women in mass media. Women in mass media. Sex workers in mass media. Prostitutes -- Public opinion. Feminist theory. Feminist theory. Hispanic American women in mass media. Sex workers in mass media. Women in mass media.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12995705

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ISBN:	9781478019497 1478019492 9781478016854 147801685X 9781478024118
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--
Other form:	Online version: Rodríguez, Juana María. Puta life. Durham : Duke University Press, 2023 9781478024118

Table of Contents:

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

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