Travesti - Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (inbunden)
Fler böcker inom
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
277
Utgivningsdatum
1998-09-01
Upplaga
2nd ed.
Förlag
University of Chicago Press
Illustrationer
20 halftones
Dimensioner
235 x 157 x 22 mm
Vikt
518 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780226460994

Travesti - Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes

av Don Kulick
Inbunden,  Engelska, 1998-09-01

Slutsåld

This narrative follows the lives of a group of transgendered prostitutes ("travestis" in Portuguese) in the Brazilian city Salvador. Travestis are males who, at an age as young as ten, adopt female names, clothing styles, hairstyles and linguistic pronouns. They ingest massive doses of female hormones and inject litres of industrial silicone into their bodies to create breasts, wide hips and large thighs and buttocks. However, no travesti identifies herself as a woman, moreover they regard any male that does so as mentally disturbed. The text analyzes the ways that travestis modify their bodies, explores the motivations that lead them to choose this particular gendered identity, and examines the complex relationships that they maintain with one another, their boyfriends and their families. Also examining how they earn their living through prostitution and discussing the reasons that prostitution for most travestis is a positive and affirmative experience. Arguing that transgenderism never occurs in a natural or arbitrary form, the text shows how it is created in specific social contexts and assumes specific social forms, suggesting that travestis may distill and perfect the messages that give meaning to gender throughout Brazilian society and possibly throughout much of Latin America.
Visa hela texten

Kundrecensioner

Har du läst boken? Sätt ditt betyg »

Fler böcker av Don Kulick

Visa alla böcker av Don Kulick »

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments Note on the Transcriptions Introduction 1: The Context of Travesti Life 2: Becoming a Travesti 3: A Man in the House 4: The Pleasure of Prostitution 5: Travesti Gendered Subjectivity Notes References Index

Du kanske gillar