Overview
- Sheds new light on the interconnections between identity, gender, sexualities and geographical displacement
- Analyses the impact of bodily and geographic migrations on ‘travesti’ subjectivities
- Provides an innovative contribution to debates on trans issues, gender and identity
- Builds bridges between Portuguese and Spanish discussions of trans issues and those in the English-speaking world
Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences (GSSS)
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“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)
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Book Title: Brazilian 'Travesti' Migrations
Book Subtitle: Gender, Sexualities and Embodiment Experiences
Authors: Julieta Vartabedian
Series Title: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77101-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77100-7Published: 04 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08370-0Published: 24 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77101-4Published: 22 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-8782
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8790
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 246
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Gender Studies, Sociology of the Body, Migration, Self and Identity, Ethnography, Social Anthropology