Brazilian 'Travesti' Migrations Gender, Sexualities and Embodiment Experiences

Brazilian 'Travesti' Migrations Gender, Sexualities and Embodiment Experiences / by Julieta Vartabedian.

‘Brazilian ‘Travesti’ Migrations offers a rich and nuanced analysis of the cultures of travestis in Rio de Janeiro and Barcelona. Emerging from a feminist ethics and paying particular attention to embodiment and aesthetics, it tells a moving and often heroic story of gender diverse lives, loves and...

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Main Author: Vartabedian, Julieta (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Sociology.
Human body—Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration.
Self.
Identity (Psychology).
Ethnography.
Ethnology.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
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Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introducing Brazilian ‘Travesti’ Migrations
  • Chapter 2: Disrupting dichotomous boundaries of gender and sexuality
  • Chapter 3: Brazilian travestis and the beginning of our encounters
  • Chapter 4: On bodies, beauty and ‘travesti’ femininity
  • Chapter 5: On clients, ‘maridos’ and ‘travestis’’ sexualities
  • Chapter 6: ‘Travesti’ sex workers’ bodily experiences and the politics of life and death
  • Chapter 7: Trans migrations: Brazilian ‘travestis’’ spatial and embodied journeys
  • Chapter 8: ‘Travestis’’ paradoxes in contemporary world.

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