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Worlds of Desire: the Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture Ser.: Travesti : Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes by Don Kulick (1998, Trade Paperback)

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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 disturbed. Kulick analyzes the various ways travestis modify their bodies, explores the motivations that lead them to choose this particular gendered identity, and examines the complex relationships that they maintain with one another, their boyfriends, and their families. Kulick also looks at how travestis earn their living through prostitution and discusses the reasons prostitution, for most travestis, is a positive and affirmative experience. Arguing that transgenderism never occurs in a "natural" or arbitrary form, Kulick shows how it is created in specific social contexts and assumes specific social forms. Furthermore, Kulick suggests that travestis --far from deviating from normative gendered expectations--may in fact distill and perfect the messages that give meaning to gender throughout Brazilian society and possibly throughout much of Latin America. Through Kulick's engaging voice and sharp analysis, this elegantly rendered account is not only a landmark study in its discipline but also a fascinating read for anyone interested in sexuality and gender.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226461009
ISBN-13
9780226461007
eBay Product ID (ePID)
407774

Product Key Features

Author
DON Kulick
Publication Name
Travesti : Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Series
Worlds of Desire: the Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture Ser.
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
278 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Hq77.2.B7k85 1998
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Note on the Transcriptions Introduction 1: The Context of Travesti Life 2: Becoming a Travesti 3: A Man in the House 4: The Pleasure of Prostitution 5: Travesti Gendered Subjectivity Notes References Index
Copyright Date
1998
Topic
Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality), Sociology / General, Gender Studies, Popular Culture, Prostitution & Sex Trade
Lccn
98-015319
Dewey Decimal
306.77
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Psychology, Social Science

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by cupcakesandstee...Oct 11, 2005
One of the best!!
I read this book for a class on Sexual Cultural Anthropology two years ago and I remember it like it was yesterday. Author and narrator Don Kulick travels to the favelas of the northern Brazilian city of Santiago to live amongst transgendered male prostitutes, better known as travestis. It is though he takes you the everyday lives of these sex workers, causing for you to think on a variety of topics. While the language and situations that are describe can tend be quite graphic, you must understand that this is the lives that they lead. One of the most important sections of this book is that dealing with relationships, where it between travestis, between travestis and their lovers, between travestis and their families, and travestis and the outside world. Also important to note is the chapter talking about aesthetic beauty, as the travestis are willing to subject themselves to pumping large amounts of silicone under their skin to create attributes such as breasts, hips and most important in Brazilian culture-bunda, or behinds. Overall an excellent book for any academic course, especially those on cultural anthropology or gay studies.Read full review
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by popculturehereSep 21, 2009
Travesti by Don Kulick
The subtitle "Sex, Gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes" says a lot. The book is based on an anthropological field study. The author had good access to his subjects. These are not transvestites or transexuals but a subculture that accepts their own homosexuality and manifests it in the feminine gender. The key issue for these transgendered people is whether someone is active or passive during sex. By changing their bodies to a feminine form, they desire interactions with real Men (by their definition). They don't cosider themselves women but a catagory of not-man. Perhaps it is the Brazilian stigma against homosexual men that causes them to transform themselves. Obviously this is a special interest book.

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