Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings

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 Mar¿Rodr¿ez 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 fo