{"product_id":"sexual-futures-queer-gestures-and-other-latina-longings-hardback-9780814760758","title":"Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings (Hardback) 9780814760758","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJuana María Rodríguez (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780814760758\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 July 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 12 black and white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.3 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"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 MartÍnez-San Miguel,author of \u003ci\u003e Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-Colonial Migrations in a Caribbean Context \u003c\/i\u003e \"With a distinctly lush style of inquiry, \u003ci\u003eSexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings\u003c\/i\u003e mobilizes the stereotype of the hyperbolically gestural Latina femme with and for both pleasure and politics. Juana María Rodríguez is a fierce critic in all the best senses of that word.\" - Elizabeth Freeman, author of \u003ci\u003eTime Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories\u003c\/i\u003e \"Through sensuous and seductive prose, Juana María Rodríguez 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,\u003ci\u003e Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings\u003c\/i\u003e demands that we radically reclaim abject sex as a site of queer futurity.\" - E. Patrick Johnson, author of \u003ci\u003e Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize presented by the GL\/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association\u003cbr\u003e Finalist for the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eSexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings\u003c\/i\u003e reveals —in lyrical style and explicit detail—how sex has been deployed in contemporary queer communities in order to radically reconceptualize sexual politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563932905752,"sku":"9780814760758","price":79.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sexual-futures-queer-gestures-and-other-latina-longings-hardback-9780814760758","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}