From Toads to Queens

Transvestism in a Latin American Setting

Jacobo Schifter (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

1999
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7890-0649-3 (ISBN)

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The most comprehensive analysis of Latin transvestites, From Toads to Queens (a 2000 Lammy Nominee) rekindles the debate between nature and nurture. This crucial book adds important and new information against essentialist theories on the etiology of sexual orientation.

The information in From Toads to Queens: Transvestism in a Latin American Setting (a 2000 Lammy Nominee) is crucial to understanding Latin American culture and its relation to HIV prevention. You’ll find research findings that offer insights into and analysis of the sexual culture and risk factors that place transvestites in the sex trade and their customers at risk of contracting HIV. This information could prove valuable to developing preventions and interventions for similar populations in countries all over the world.In From Toads to Queens, transvestites in the sex trade and their customers share fascinating personal accounts from their daily lives, including details of their sexual encounters. Specifically you will gain insight into:

sexual practices
pay rates in the sex trade
types of lovers and sexual partners
locations of “work”
conceptions of fashion and beauty among transvestites
relations between transvestites, the police, and gay bashers
clients who are heterosexual men
drug consumption and unsafe sexFrom this book, you will gain a comprehensive analysis of Latin transvestites, how this population questions assumptions about sexual orientation and practice, and how they are affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Most importantly, From Toads to Queens documents boundry-crossing individuals’existence and subverts the simplistic division of people into traditional psychiatric categories, a crucial first step in devising ways to decrease the rates of HIV infection among specific populations.

Jacobo Schifter, PhD

Contents
Foreword

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Expulsion from Eden
Fernando
Early Awareness
Chapter 2. From Toads into Queens
Creating the Magic
Choosing a Gender
Expressing Separate Personalities
Feeling Like a Princess
Chapter 3. The Neighbors
The Libano
The Paqueteo (ital) Revolution
Chapter 4. The Battle for Clinica Biblica
The District
The Transvestites
The Colorientos (ital)
Johns and Neighbors
The Association
The Governor
The Public Ombudsman
The Police
The Constitutional Court
Chapter 5. Priscilla and Prevention
Lack of Support Among Transvestites
Internal Divisions
Lack of Support from Lovers
Homophobia and AIDS
Off to Miami?
Chapter 6: The Business of Prostitution
Discrimination at Work
Transvestites’ Incomes
Reasons for Transvestites’ Success
Chapter 7. Drugs
Crack Is King
Basuko (ital)
Sex and Drugs
Chapter 8. Top-Man, Bottom-Man
A Sexual Encounter
Transvestites Are Not Passive Partners
Love and Condoms Don’t Mix
Unsafe Sex Remains a Problem
Chapter 9: The Lovers of Libano
Who Are They?
Heterosexual and Homosexual Activity
In the Transvestites’ World, the Penis Does Not Make the Man
Self-Definition As Cachero (ital)
Partners’ Knowledge of AIDS
Chapter 10. The Sky Is the Limit
The Basketball Player
Inconsistent Condom Use
Taxi! Taxi!
Yet Another Combination
Not Even Lesbians Escape
Conclusion
Is Transvestism Revolutionary?
A Transvestite President
Notes
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.4.1999
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7890-0649-9 / 0789006499
ISBN-13	978-0-7890-0649-3 / 9780789006493
Zustand	Neuware