{"product_id":"puta-life-9781478019497","title":"Puta Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePuta Life\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 sex work''s stigmatization and criminalization—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 brings the language of affect and aesthetics to bear upon understandings of gender, age, race, sexuality, labor, disability, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePuta Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a rigorous and nuanced contribution to affirming sex workers’ lives. This is reason alone to read it. But I cherish Puta Life because it offered me a new way of sensing my mother’s painful past and my own history of abuse beyond exposure. Above all, \u003ci\u003ePuta Life\u003c\/i\u003e gifted me with a deep respect for all I can never know about other women’s lives.\" -- Elizabeth Hall * Full Stop *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Archival Encounters and Affective Traces: Visual Genealogies of Puta Life\u003cbr\u003e 1. Women in Public: Biopolitics, Portraiture, and Poetics  37\u003cbr\u003e 2. Colonial Echoes and Aesthetic Allure: Tracking the Genres of Puta Life  68\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Visions, Voices, and Impressions Left Behind: Representing Puta Life\u003cbr\u003e 3. Carnal Knowledge, Interpretive Practices: Authorizing Vanessa del Rio  107\u003cbr\u003e 4. Touching Alterity: The Women of Casa Xochiquetzal  140\u003cbr\u003e 5. Seeing, Sensing, Feeling: Adela Vázquez’s Amazing Past  180\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Toward a Conclusion That Does Not Die or a Subject That Is Allowed to Live  211\u003cbr\u003e Notes  215\u003cbr\u003e References  243\u003cbr\u003e Index  259","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409011253591,"sku":"9781478019497","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478019497.jpg?v=1730505081","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/puta-life-9781478019497","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}