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Sexual futures, queer gestures, and other Latina longings

Title
Sexual futures, queer gestures, and other Latina longings / Juana María Rodríguez.
Author
Rodriguez, Juana Maria.
Publication
New York : New York University Press, [2014]
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x, 245 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
"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 Mari;a Rodri;guez 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, Rodri;guez 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. Rodri;guez 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"--
Series Statement
Sexual cultures
Uniform Title
Sexual cultures.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call Number
JFE 14-6404
ISBN
  • 9780814760758 (hardback)
  • 0814760759 (hardback)
  • 9780814764923 (pb)
  • 0814764924 (pb)
LCCN
2014005190
OCLC
863200898
Author
Rodriguez, Juana Maria.
Title
Sexual futures, queer gestures, and other Latina longings / Juana María Rodríguez.
Publisher
New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Sexual cultures
Sexual cultures.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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