Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex

by Juana Mara Rodrguez and Juana María Rodríguez

Book Overview

In Puta Life, Juana Mar?a Rodr?guez 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. Rodr?guez's eclectic archive features the faces and stories of women whose lives have been...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478019492
• ISBN13: 9781478019497
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"