Queer belonging: women at a bar in Rio de Janeiro

Although mature and vibrant, Latin American scholarship on sexuality still remains largely invisible to a global readership. In this collection of articles translated from Portuguese and Spanish, South American scholars explore the values, practices, knowledge, moralities and politics of sexuality in a variety of local contexts. While conventionally read as an intellectual legacy of Modernity, Latin American social thinking and research has in fact brought singular forms of engagement with, and new ways of looking at, political processes. Contributors to this reader have produced fresh and situated understandings of the relations between gender, sexuality, culture and society across the region. Topics in this volume include sexual politics and rights, sexual identities and communities, eroticism, pornography and sexual consumerism, sexual health and well-being, intersectional approaches to sexual cultures and behavior, sexual knowledge, and sexuality research methodologies in Latin America.

Although mature and vibrant, Latin American scholarship on sexuality still remains largely invisible to a global readership. In this collection of articles translated from Portuguese and Spanish, South American scholars explore the values, practices, knowledge, moralities and politics of sexuality in a variety of local contexts. While conventionally read as an intellectual legacy of Modernity, Latin American social thinking and research has in fact brought singular forms of engagement with, and new ways of looking at, political processes. Contributors to this reader have produced fresh and situated understandings of the relations between gender, sexuality, culture and society across the region. Topics in this volume include sexual politics and rights, sexual identities and communities, eroticism, pornography and sexual consumerism, sexual health and well-being, intersectional approaches to sexual cultures and behavior, sexual knowledge, and sexuality research methodologies in Latin America.

Although mature and vibrant, Latin American scholarship on sexuality still remains largely invisible to a global readership. In this collection of articles translated from Portuguese and Spanish, South American scholars explore the values, practices, knowledge, moralities and politics of sexuality in a variety of local contexts. While conventionally read as an intellectual legacy of Modernity, Latin American social thinking and research has in fact brought singular forms of engagement with, and new ways of looking at, political processes. Contributors to this reader have produced fresh and situated understandings of the relations between gender, sexuality, culture and society across the region. Topics in this volume include sexual politics and rights, sexual identities and communities, eroticism, pornography and sexual consumerism, sexual health and well-being, intersectional approaches to sexual cultures and behavior, sexual knowledge, and sexuality research methodologies in Latin America.

Although mature and vibrant, Latin American scholarship on sexuality still remains largely invisible to a global readership. In this collection of articles translated from Portuguese and Spanish, South American scholars explore the values, practices, knowledge, moralities and politics of sexuality in a variety of local contexts. While conventionally read as an intellectual legacy of Modernity, Latin American social thinking and research has in fact brought singular forms of engagement with, and new ways of looking at, political processes. Contributors to this reader have produced fresh and situated understandings of the relations between gender, sexuality, culture and society across the region. Topics in this volume include sexual politics and rights, sexual identities and communities, eroticism, pornography and sexual consumerism, sexual health and well-being, intersectional approaches to sexual cultures and behavior, sexual knowledge, and sexuality research methodologies in Latin America.

2013

Although mature and vibrant, Latin American scholarship on sexuality still remains largely invisible to a global readership. In this collection of articles translated from Portuguese and Spanish, South American scholars explore the values, practices, knowledge, moralities and politics of sexuality in a variety of local contexts. While conventionally read as an intellectual legacy of Modernity, Latin American social thinking and research has in fact brought singular forms of engagement with, and new ways of looking at, political processes. Contributors to this reader have produced fresh and situated understandings of the relations between gender, sexuality, culture and society across the region. Topics in this volume include sexual politics and rights, sexual identities and communities, eroticism, pornography and sexual consumerism, sexual health and well-being, intersectional approaches to sexual cultures and behavior, sexual knowledge, and sexuality research methodologies in Latin America.

SexPolitics: Trends and Tensions in the 21st Century - Contextual Undercurrents - Volume 2, 2019

This uneven composition reflects, on one hand, the contours of SPW’s transnational partnerships and, on the other, it illustrates the challenges of spatialized analyses of sexual politics. The standpoints and analytical frames used in each chapter are quite distinctive. Therefore, what emerges from the exercise as a whole is a rich and remarkably insightful mosaic panel of sexual politics worldwide.

2020

Although mature and vibrant, Latin American scholarship on sexuality still remains largely invisible to a global readership. In this collection of articles translated from Portuguese and Spanish, South American scholars explore the values, practices, knowledge, moralities and politics of sexuality in a variety of local contexts. While conventionally read as an intellectual legacy of Modernity, Latin American social thinking and research has in fact brought singular forms of engagement with, and new ways of looking at, political processes. Contributors to this reader have produced fresh and situated understandings of the relations between gender, sexuality, culture and society across the region. Topics in this volume include sexual politics and rights, sexual identities and communities, eroticism, pornography and sexual consumerism, sexual health and well-being, intersectional approaches to sexual cultures and behavior, sexual knowledge, and sexuality research methodologies in Latin ...

Although mature and vibrant, Latin American scholarship on sexuality still remains largely invisible to a global readership. In this collection of articles translated from Portuguese and Spanish, South American scholars explore the values, practices, knowledge, moralities and politics of sexuality in a variety of local contexts. While conventionally read as an intellectual legacy of Modernity, Latin American social thinking and research has in fact brought singular forms of engagement with, and new ways of looking at, political processes. Contributors to this reader have produced fresh and situated understandings of the relations between gender, sexuality, culture and society across the region. Topics in this volume include sexual politics and rights, sexual identities and communities, eroticism, pornography and sexual consumerism, sexual health and well-being, intersectional approaches to sexual cultures and behavior, sexual knowledge, and sexuality research methodologies in Latin America.

Latin American Perspectives, 2002

Beyond Carnival is a fascinating book that fills a void in Brazilian history and studies of sexuality. Drawing on extensive archival research and oral histories, James Green vividly traces the social and cultural history of male homosexuality in Brazil's two major cities-Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo-from the late nineteenth century until the late 1970s. He ably relates this history to the political, economic, and social transformations in the country and ties it to the history of gender and masculinity. Participating in local events since the 1970s, Green captures well the complexities of Brazilian culture by going beyond carnival, that is, beyond the exotic vision of a stereotyped Brazilian sexual permissiveness. He demonstrates that male homosexuality, though decriminalized by the Imperial Penal Code of 1830, was subject to medico-legal control, police violence, and social stigmatization, even during carnival. This control was directed especially at the poor, blacks, and Northeastern migrants. At the same time, Green examines the resistance and the construction of a male homosexual subculture by the subjects themselves, arguing that its principal characteristic was the appropriation of urban public space. Excluded from the patriarchal family, they appropriated the parks because of their access, as men, to public space. However, being subject to scorn, they also created an alternative private spacesupport networks that Green calls "counter-casa" (counter-home). From this gender perspective, Green reelaborates the class-based dichotomy of casa (home, space of rights) versus rua (street, space of exclusion) originally formulated by the anthropologist Roberto DaMatta. Since political regimes did not have a decisive impact on the development of this subculture, Green organizes the six chapters chronologically following the social transformations that redefined gender relations and the use of public space in Rio and São Paulo. The narrative begins with the belle époque in Rio, between 1898 and 1914. As the then-capital of the republic grew, a male homosexual subculture emerged, one that was not yet self-affirmative but already manifested itself in the public plazas. Although sodomy remained decriminalized, "effeminate" men were routinely 153 Cecília MacDowell Santos teaches at the University of San Francisco and is a coordinating editor of Latin American Perspectives.