| 期刊全称 | Brazilian ‘Travesti‘ Migrations | | 期刊简称 | Gender, Sexualities | | 影响因子2023 | Julieta Vartabedian | | 视频video | | | 发行地址 | Sheds new light on the interconnections between identity, gender, sexualities and geographical displacement.Analyses the impact of bodily and geographic migrations on ‘travesti’ subjectivities.Provide | | 学科分类 | Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | This book sheds new light on the interconnections between identity, gender and geographical displacement. At its centre are Brazilian .travesti .migrants, assigned as male at birth but later seeking to convey the aesthetic attributes of women by repeatedly performing a minutely-studied type of femininity. Despite the fact that they have been migrating between Brazil and Europe for more than forty years, very little is know about them, especially in the English-speaking world. This work therefore fills a significant lacuna in our understandings of sexualities, bodies and trans issues, whilst rejecting hegemonic terms such as ‘transsexual‘ and ‘transgender‘ in favour of the specificity of the .travesti.. What it presents is an ethnographical study of their bodily and geographic-spatial migrations, analysing how they become .travestis. through the gendered modification of their bodies, their involvement in sex work, and the transnational migrations to Europe that many of them make. Examining their lives in both Brazil and Europe, it also analyses how their migrations influence the construction of their subjectivities. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Brazil and Barcelona, this exciti | | Pindex | Book 2018 |
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