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Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings - Juana María Rodríguez

Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings

Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2014
New York University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8147-6492-3 (ISBN)
CHF 43,60 inkl. MwSt
Considering the ways in which bodily movement is assigned cultural meaning, this book 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.
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 María Rodríguez 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 book’s varied archive—which includes burlesque border crossings, daddy play, pornography, sodomy laws, and sovereignty claims—seeks 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, Rodríguez argues that forms of agency continually mediate among these various structures of legibility—the 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. Rodríguez 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 detail—how sex has been deployed in contemporary queer communities in order to radically reconceptualize sexual politics.

Juana María Rodríguez is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces.

" 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

Reihe/Serie Sexual Cultures
Zusatzinfo 12 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 363 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-8147-6492-4 / 0814764924
ISBN-13 978-0-8147-6492-3 / 9780814764923
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