Beschreibung:

S. 260-384; 23 cm; kart.

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Sehr gutes Ex. - ISSN 1363-4607. - Englisch. - INHALT : EDITORIAL ---- Don Kulick Transgcnder in Latin America: Persons, Practices and Meanings ---- ARTICLES ---- Roger N. Lancaster Transgenderism in Latin America: Some Critical Introductory Remarks on Identities and Practices ---- Heather Levi Lean Mean Fighting ---- Queens: Drag in the World of Mexican Professional Wrestling ---- Annick Prieur Bodily and Symbolic Constructions among Homosexual Men in Mexico ---- Don Kulick Fe/male Trouble: The Unsettling Place of Lesbians in the Self-images of Brazilian Travesti Prostitutes ---- Jared Braiterman Sexual Science: Whose Cultural Difference? ---- Charles H. Klein From One 'Battle' to Another: The Making of a Travesti Political Movement in a Brazilian City ---- David A. B. Murray Defiance or ---- Defilement? Undressing Cross-dressing in Martinique's Carnival ---- Judith Butler Afterword ---- SPECIAL FEATURE ---- Edgar Z. Friedenberg The Resources of Gaiety: A Professor's Retrospective ---- BOOK REVIEWS ---- Wendy Chapkis, Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labour, reviewed by Katherine Frank ---- Steven Epstein, Impure Science: AIDS, Activism and the Politics of Knowledge, reviewed by Jeffrey Weeks Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne Marie Bouthilette and Yolanda Retter (eds), Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance, reviewed by Jon Binnie ---- Sue Lees, Ruling Passions: Sexual Violence, Reputation and the Law, reviewed by Anne Edwards.