Among necas, breasts and picumãs : subjectivity and identity construction travestites who live in Jardim Itatinga / Entre necas, peitos e picumãs : subjetividade e construção identitaria das travestis moradoras no Jardim Itatinga

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

Among the so called sexual or social minorities, the transvestites are the most perversely marked by their sexual identity, almost completely forgotten by gender studies. Living and structuring their identities from illegality and marginality, it is difficult to find them out of prostitution. In this study, from what Foucault called scientia sexualis and ars erotica, I analyze the way truthful discourses lead to sexism, misogyny and homophobia, and I try to comprehend how this structural violence provokes the loss of transvestites? sense of citizenship and, at the same time, how they subject and build themselves throughout the processes of resistance to the mechanisms of power. My question is: how come transvestites, professionals of sex, structure their identities from the social no-place they occupy in the urban scenario in the city of Campinas?

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sexuality violence identidade travestites genero sexualidade gender violencia identity travestis

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