Name: Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore: The Story of a Woman Who Decided to Be a Puta
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Author: Leite, Gabriela ; Weeks, Meg
ISBN: 9781478026273

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Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore: The Story of a Woman Who Decided to Be a Puta

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Physical Book

Author

Gabriela Leite

Translated by

Meg Weeks

Publisher

Duke University Press

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Hardcover

Weight

0.57 kg.

ISBN13

9781478026273

Synopsis "Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore: The Story of a Woman Who Decided to Be a Puta"

In the early 1970s, while living at home with her conservative, middle-class family and studying at the University of São Paulo, Gabriela Leite decided to become a sex worker. From her first client in a tiny room in downtown São Paulo to the launch of an exuberant clothing line designed for sex workers in Rio de Janeiro thirty years later, Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore tells the fascinating story of Leite's bold and unique life in her own words. After helping organize Brazil's first protests of sex workers against police brutality, she moved to Rio de Janeiro where she quickly became ensconced in the city's storied red-light district. From there, Leite built a national network of politicized sex workers, worked for HIV/AIDS prevention efforts, and participated in Brazil's robust new civil society after it returned to democracy in 1985 after a twenty-one-year military dictatorship. Insistent on advocating for the sex worker's comprehensive human rights, Leite pioneered an irreverent grassroots Latin American feminism, which critiqued moral hypocrisies and Christian conservatism while affirming pleasure, joy, and agency. Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore also includes a foreword by artist and activist Carol Leigh.

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