Puta Life
Seeing Latinas, Working Sex
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 2023
288 pages
978-1-4780-2411-8 (ISBN)
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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.
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04/2023
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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.
Content
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
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
