TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rodríguez,Juana María
TI  - Puta life: seeing Latinas, working sex 
T2  - Dissident acts
SN  - 9781478019497
AV  - P94.5.W65 R63 2023
U1  - 305.48/868073 23/eng/20221121
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Hispanic American women in mass media
KW  - Women in mass media
KW  - Sex workers in mass media
KW  - Prostitutes
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Feminist theory
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality (see also PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality)
KW  - Fellow
KW  - John P. Birkelund Fellow in the Humanities
KW  - Class of Fall 2021
KW  - Written at the Academy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Women in public : biopolitics, portraiture, and poetics -- Colonial echoes and aesthetic allure : tracking the genres of puta life -- Carnal knowledge, interpretive practices : authorizing Vanessa del Rio -- Touching alterity : the women of Casa Xochiquetzal -- Seeing, sensing, feeling : Adela Vázquez's amazing past -- Toward a conclusion that does not die or a subject that is allowed to live
N2  - "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"--
ER  -