Puta Life : Seeing Latinas, Working Sex /

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"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 w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rodriguez, Juana Maria (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women in mass media.
Sex workers in mass media.
Hispanic American women in mass media.
Feminist theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality (see also PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Prostitutes > Public opinion.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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