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.
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.
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
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
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