Travesti Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes

Name: Travesti Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes
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ISBN: 9780226461007

ISBN-10: 0226461009

ISBN-13: 9780226461007

Edition: 1998

Authors: Don Kulick

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In this dramatic and compelling narrative, anthropologist Don Kulick follows the lives of a group of transgendered prostitutes (called travestis in Portuguese) in the Brazilian city Salvador. Travestis are males who, often beginning at ages as young as ten, adopt female names, clothing styles, hairstyles, and linguistic pronouns. More dramatically, they ingest massive doses of female hormones and inject up to twenty liters of industrial silicone into their bodies to create breasts, wide hips, and large thighs and buttocks. Despite such irreversible physiological changes, virtually no travesti identifies herself as a woman. Moreover, travestis regard any male who does so as mentally…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 278
Size: 6.50" wide x 8.94" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Note on the Transcriptions


Introduction



The Context of Travesti Life



Becoming a Travesti



A Man in the House



The Pleasure of Prostitution



Travesti Gendered Subjectivity


Notes


References


Index