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Juana Maria Rodriguez
October 10, 2023 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Virtual Book Talk
Tuesday, October 10th, 10:30am-11:30am
Book Talk by Dr. Juana María Rodríguez, Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies at University of California, Berkeley
Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex (Duke University Press, 2023)
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 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.
ZOOM LINK: https://bit.ly/putalife
This event, sponsored by the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, is free and open to the public.