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Travesti : Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)
Travesti Sex Gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes - Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture
Author: Don Kulick
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. M...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226461007
ISBN-10: 0226461009
Publication Date: 11/15/1998
Pages: 277
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This ethnography hits the balance between the emic and the etic very well. Kulick makes sure to include descriptions of travesti life from many travestis' perspectives, as well as including his analysis as an anthropologist. One of the best ethnographies I've read.


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