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Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes

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Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes - Kulick, Don, Professor
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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 ...

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Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes 1998, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226461007

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Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes 1998, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226460994

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