Gabriela Leite’s phenomenal memoir, Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore: The Story of a Woman Who Decided to Be a Puta (Duke University Press, 2024), is one of the most recent books to be indexed by Southwest Humanities. Leite’s memoir, expertly translated by Meg Weeks, details the author’s life as a sex worker in Brazil. “After helping to organize Brazil’s first protests by sex workers against police brutality,” Leite went on to help build “a national network of politicized sex workers, worked for HIV/AIDS prevention, and participated in Brazil’s robust new civil society after its return to democracy in 1985.” A pioneer of Latin American feminism, Leite also helped launch a fashion line designed by and for São Paulo sex workers. Of interest to scholars of human rights, sex-worker rights, feminism, and gender and sexuality studies, Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore will be available for purchase on 20 September 2024. Please see the publisher’s website here for more information about this exciting new title.
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