Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
240
Utgivningsdatum
2014-07-25
Utmärkelser
Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Studies) 2015
Förlag
New York University Press
Illustratör/Fotograf
black and white 12 Illustrations
Illustrationer
12 black and white illustrations
Dimensioner
229 x 152 x 19 mm
Vikt
518 g
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1
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7:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Blue Cloth on Creme
ISBN
9780814760758

Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings

av Juana Mara Rodrguez
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2014-07-25
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Winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize presented by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association Finalist for the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings proposes a theory of sexual politics that works in the interstices between radical queer desires and the urgency of transforming public policy, between utopian longings and everyday failures. Considering the ways in which bodily movement is assigned cultural meaning, Juana Mara Rodrguez takes the stereotypes of the hyperbolically gestural queer Latina femme body as a starting point from which to discuss how gestures and forms of embodiment inform sexual pleasures and practices in the social realm. Centered on the sexuality of racialized queer female subjects, the books varied archivewhich includes burlesque border crossings, daddy play, pornography, sodomy laws, and sovereignty claimsseeks to bring to the fore alternative sexual practices and machinations that exist outside the sightlines of mainstream cosmopolitan gay male culture. Situating articulations of sexual subjectivity between the interpretive poles of law and performance, Rodrguez argues that forms of agency continually mediate among these various structures of legibilitythe rigid confines of the law and the imaginative possibilities of the performative. She reads the strategies of Puerto Rican activists working toward self-determination alongside sexual performances on stage, in commercial pornography, in multi-media installations, on the dance floor, and in the bedroom. Rodrguez examines not only how projections of racialized sex erupt onto various discursive mediums but also how the confluence of racial and gendered anxieties seeps into the gestures and utterances of sexual acts, kinship structures, and activist practices. Ultimately, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings reveals in lyrical style and explicit detailhow sex has been deployed in contemporary queer communities in order to radically reconceptualize sexual politics.
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"The books intriguing methodological protocols, its vibrant archives, and its foregrounding of a Latina femme perspective make it a commanding contribution to performance studies, porn studies, women of color feminisms, Latinastudies, and queer of color critique. That is productively engages such a wide range of disciplines speaks to the success of its own amorous gesturing." * GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies * "Fun, sensual, and theoretically sophisticated, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings questions facile binary oppositions by exploring the intricate and perverse world of fantasy and pleasure, particularly in contexts in which marginality, submission, and racialization seem to foreclose key moments of identification for queer subjects of color." -- Yolanda Martnez-San Miguel,author of <i> Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-Colonial Migrations in a Caribbean Context </i> "With a distinctly lush style of inquiry, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings mobilizes the stereotype of the hyperbolically gestural Latina femme with and for both pleasure and politics. Juana Mara Rodrguez is a fierce critic in all the best senses of that word." -- Elizabeth Freeman, author of <i>Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories</i> "Through sensuous and seductive prose, Juana Mara Rodrguez demonstrates how queer gesture highlights the tension between socially inscribed corporeal regulation and agential enactments of subjectivity. Pivoting away from this binary through a reading of Latin@ excess, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings demands that we radically reclaim abject sex as a site of queer futurity." -- E. Patrick Johnson, author of <i> Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the SouthAn Oral History </i>

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Juana Mara Rodrguez is Professor of Gender and Womens Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces.

Innehållsförteckning

" v Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Who's Your Daddy? Queer Kinship and Perverse Domesticity 29 2. Sodomy, Sovereignty, and Other Utopian Longings 69 3. Gesture in Mambo Time 99 4. Latina Sexual Fantasies, the Remix 139 The Afterglow 183

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