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  title info:
    title: Brazilian 'Travesti' Migrations
    sub title: Gender, Sexualities and Embodiment Experiences
  name:
    name part: Vartabedian, Julieta.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 246 p. 7 illus. online resource.
  abstract: '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 bodies. This is a wonderful addition to sexuality and gender research.' -Sally Hines, Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, University of Leeds, UK. 'Vartabedian's fascinating ethnographic account reveals not only how some performances of femininity are valued more than others, but how these performances are simultaneously a way of enacting exoticized versions of Brazilianness. Importantly, she showcases the limitations of eurocentric sex/gender taxonomies for accommodating travesti ways of being and suggests that transgender studies further work to do if it is to interpret travesti lives without doing epistemological violence to them.' -Susan Stryker, Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, University of Arizona, USA, and co-editor, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly This book analyses the embodied and spatial experiences of Brazilian travesti sex workers who cross both, gender and (trans)national borders. Based on a multi-sited ethnography, it explores travestis' bodily transformations, their involvement in sex work, and the transnational migrations to Europe that many make. This engaging account combines rich ethnographic research with incisive analysis that draws on feminist and trans studies, queer theory (and its critiques), social and queer geography research, sex work and trans migration studies. It will appeal to students and scholars of migration, gender, sexuality and transgender issues. Julieta Vartabedian is a researcher at the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, UK. In her work she combines gender studies, feminist theory, ethnographic and embodiment research. Her articles have been published in Qualitative Resea…
  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.
  note: by Julieta Vartabedian.
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Human body-Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Emigration and immigration
  subject:
    topic: Self
  subject:
    topic: Identity (Psychology)
  subject:
    topic: Ethnography
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
  subject:
    topic: Gender Studies
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of the Body
  subject:
    topic: Migration
  subject:
    topic: Self and Identity
  subject:
    topic: Ethnography
  subject:
    topic: Social Anthropology
  classification: HM401-1281
  classification: 305.3
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
  identifier: 9783319771014
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77101-4
  record info:
    record creation date: 180522
    record change date: 20191024021248.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-77101-4