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865324
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Vartabedian, Julieta
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Brazilian Travesti migrations : : gender, sexualities and embodiment experiences /\ Julieta Vartabedian.
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| Publication Statement
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Cham, Switzerland :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2018]
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Genders and sexualities in the social sciences
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1 online resource (xi, 246 pages) :: maps
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3319771019
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: 9783319771014
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9783319771007
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Maps; 1: Introducing Brazilian Travesti Migrations; An Embodied Ethnography; A Multi-sited Ethnography; The Research and My Positionality; Outline of the Book; References; 2: Disrupting Dichotomous Boundaries of Gender and Sexuality; Anthropological Approaches and Critiques of the 'Third Gender' Category; Disturbing the Sex/Gender Binary and the Emergence of Queer Theory; The Limits of Queer Analysis: Beyond Transgression; On the Subversive Potential of Travestis and Its Limits; Looking for the Material; References
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3: Brazilian Travestis and the Beginning of Our EncountersThe Emergence of Travestis: From Theatre Shows to the Streets; Brazilian Travestis Today; Becoming Travestis2; Mães and Madrinhas; The Beginning of the Research in Rio; My Body Analysed; Becoming a 'Photographer'; References; 4: On Bodies, Beauty, and Travesti Femininity; Beauty and Power; Trans Beauty; Constructing Travestis' Beauty and Femininity; Beauty and Race in Brazil; The Brazilian Beauty Industry and the Promises of Social Mobility; Travestis' Beautification Practices; The Beginning; Hormones That Feminise
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Femininity/Masculinity or When Sexuality Meets GenderTravestis' Mobilities; References; Glossary; Index
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Silicones That EmbellishCosmetic Surgeries That Perfect; Beauty and Health; Empowered Beauty; References; 5: On Clients, Maridos, and Travestis' Sexualities; Gender and Sexuality; Regarding the 'Active'/'Passive' Model of Sexuality; Travestis' Sexualities; Clients; Maridos; References; 6: Travesti Sex Workers' Bodily Experiences and the Politics of Life and Death; The Meanings of Sex Work; Embodying Beauty Within Sex Work; Embodying 'Brazilianness' in Transnational Contexts; References; 7: Trans Migrations: Brazilian Travestis' Spatial and Embodied Journeys; The Privilege of a Safe Space
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The Limits of the 'Home' MetaphorTrans Migrations; First Displacements: From Somewhere to Rio; The Origins; In Rio de Janeiro: The Main School; The Territories of Sex Work in Rio; The City Centre; The North Zone; The South Zone; The West Zone; Transnational Migrations: The Charm of Being 'European'; The Pioneers; The Importance of Europe; The Territories of Sex Work in Barcelona; The Streets; Les Corts District; Ciutat Vella District; Sant Martí District; The Flats; References; 8: Travestis' Paradoxes in the Contemporary World; Feeling Beautiful as a Strategy of Survival
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'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 Research and Sexualities.--
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Emigration and immigration.
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Gender identity-- Brazil.
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Sexual orientation-- Brazil.
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Emigration and immigration.
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Gender identity.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.
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Sexual orientation.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.
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Brazil.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.77
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| LC Classification
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HQ23
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