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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 to organize Brazil's first protests by 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, and participated in Brazil's robust new civil society after its return to democracy in 1985 following 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.
Table des matières
Foreword / Carol Leigh vii
Translator’s Note / Meg Weeks xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction / Laura Murray, Esther Teixeira, and Meg Weeks 1
Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore: The Story of a Woman Who Decided to be a
Puta The Greatest Lesson 29
The Whore’s First Commandment 30
Second Commandment 63
Third Commandment 70
Fourth Commandment 76
Fifth Commandment 82
Sixth Commandment 86
Seventh Commandment 89
Eighth Commandment 101
Ninth Commandment 108
Tenth Commandment 136
Suggested Further Reading 173
Contributors 177
Index 179
A propos de l'auteur
Gabriela Leite
Résumé
Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore is the fascinating memoir of Brazilian sex worker and activist Gabriela Leite, who was a pioneering figure in organizing for sex workers? rights, HIV/AIDS prevention, and grassroots feminism.
