Brazilian 'Travesti' Migrations

Gender, Sexualities and Embodiment Experiences

Julieta Vartabedian (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XI, 246 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-77100-7 (ISBN)

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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 exciting book will appeal to all those interested in 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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	10.06.2018
Reihe/Serie	Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
Zusatzinfo	XI, 246 p. 7 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	467 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	Beauty • Beauty and race • Brazil • cosmetic surgery • embodied ethnography • feminist ethics • Gender transitions • Identity • Immigration • Migration • Queer Studies • Sexuality • Sex Work • Spain • Subjectivities • Transgender • Trans migrations • transsexuality • transvestism • travesti
ISBN-10	3-319-77100-0 / 3319771000
ISBN-13	978-3-319-77100-7 / 9783319771007
Zustand	Neuware