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Puta Life

Seeing Latinas, Working Sex

April 7, 2023 | Trade paperback
ISBN: 9781478019497
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Description

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.

About this Author

Juana María Rodríguez is Professor of Ethnic Studies, Performance Studies, and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings and Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces.

ISBN: 9781478019497
Format: Trade paperback
Series: Dissident Acts
Pages: 288
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Published: 2023-04-07

Reviews

"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."

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