Juana Maria Rodriguez

Puta Life

Seeing Latinas, Working Sex

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the figure of the putaâ the whore, that phantasmatic figure of Latinized feminine sexual excessâ Juana Marà a Rodrà guez probes the ways that sexual labor and Latina sexuality become visual phenomena.

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Produktdetails

• Dissident Acts
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 365mm x 238mm x 2mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9781478019497
• ISBN-10: 1478019492
• Artikelnr.: 64369854

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