Brazilian 'Travesti' Migrations Gender, Sexualities and Embodiment Experiences /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Vartabedian, Julieta (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
• Θέματα: Sociology.; Human body-Social aspects.; Emigration and immigration.; Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Ethnography.; Ethnology.; Gender Studies.; Sociology of the Body.; Migration.; Self and Identity.; Social Anthropology.

'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 li...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.