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 sex work's stigmatization and criminalization—washerwomen and masked wrestlers, porn stars and sexiles. Rodríguez examines how visual...
In Puta Life, Juana María Rodríguez probes the ways that sexual labor and Latina sexuality become visual phenomena. Drawing on state archives, illus...
Focusing on the figure of the puta-the whore, that phantasmatic figure of Latinized feminine sexual excess-Juana Maria Rodriguez probes the ways that sexual labor and Latina sexuality become visual phenomena.
Focusing on the figure of the puta-the whore, that phantasmatic figure of Latinized feminine sexual excess-Juana Maria Rodriguez probes the ways that ...
