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Brazilian 'Travesti' Migrations : Gender, Sexualities and Embodiment Experiences / by Julieta Vartabedian
(Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. ISSN:29478790)

Publisher	(Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan)
Year	2018
Edition	1st ed. 2018.
Authors	*Vartabedian, Julieta author SpringerLink (Online service)

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Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	XI, 246 p. 7 illus : online resource
Notes	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 ‘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 HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77101-4
Subjects	LCSH:Sex LCSH:Human body—Social aspects LCSH:Emigration and immigration LCSH:Philosophy of mind LCSH:Self LCSH:Ethnology FREE:Gender Studies FREE:Sociology of the Body FREE:Human Migration FREE:Philosophy of the Self FREE:Ethnography FREE:Sociocultural Anthropology
Classification	LCC:HQ12-449 DC23:305.3
ID	8000017957
ISBN	9783319771014