South american reader
Training on gender, sexuality, and ethnic/race relations for teaching professionals
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.
Table of Contents – Sexuality, Culture and Politics – A South American Reader
I. OPENING INTERROGATIONS
1. The boundaries and conventions of sexual knowledge Adriana Piscitelli, Maria Filomena Gregori and Sérgio Carrara
2. Researching sexual subjects Mario Pecheny
3. Towards a democratic right to sexuality Roger Raupp Rios
4. Sexuality and Social Science as seen from Brazil: a critical reading of conventions Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte
III. SEXUAL CULTURES AND BEHAVIOR
11. The sexual trajectories of young Brazilians: from initiation to the possibility of pregnancy Maria Luiza Heilborn and Cristiane S. Cabral
12. Female preeminences and male absences in voluntary abortion Martha Celia Ramírez-Gálvez
13. Paternity in youth trajectories: a contribution to the debate on “adolescent pregnancy” Cristiane S. Cabral
14. Disclosure of adolescent pregnancy in middle-class families: tensions and dilemmas Elaine Reis Brandão
15. Abortion and life trajectories in four Latin American cities Maria Luiza Heilborn, Mónica Petracci, Mara Viveros and Susana Rostagnol
V. EROTICISM, PORNOGRAPHY AND SEXUAL MARKETS
22. Pleasure and danger: notes on feminism, sex shops and S/M Maria Filomena Gregori
23. Death of a gigolo: the current borders of sexuality and transgression Claudia Fonseca
24. Between Iracema Beach and the European Union: international sex tourism and women’s migration Adriana Piscitelli
25. Scenes from an orgy: the effervescence of sex in porn María Elvira Díaz-Benítez
26. Child sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of children, and pedophilia: different names, different problems? Laura Lowenkron
27. Illegitimate Pleasures: “tesão,” eroticism and guilt in sex between clients and travestis in prostitution Larissa Pelúcio
28. Sexual diversity in the erotic market: gender, interaction, and subjectivities in a suburban nightclub in Rio de Janeiro Leandro de Oliveira
II. SEXUAL POLITICS AND RIGHTS
5. On hues, tints and shades: subjects, connections and challenges in the Brazilian LGBT movement Regina Facchini and Isadora Lins França
6. Constructing violence against homosexuals: bringing activism and academia together in public policy Silvia Ramos and Sérgio Carrara
7. Changing one”s legal name: the transsexual issue Elizabeth Zambrano
8. Same sex marriage: ‘remote and strange peoples’ in a ‘decent society’ Miguel Vale de Almeida
9. Same-sex marriage and the public sphere in Argentina Renata Hiller
10. Civil partnership: the desire and the right to have children Anna Paula Uziel
IV. SEXUAL IDENTITIES AND COMMUNITIES
16. Male homosexuality and the life course: thinking about age and sexual identities Júlio Assis Simões
17. Locaspeak: verbal interaction in the Argentine gay ambiente of the 1990s Horacio Sívori
18. Queer belonging: women at bar in Rio de Janeiro Andrea Lacombe
19. Saying “Nosotras:” Speech acts and collective lesbian identities in Colombia Camila Esguerra
20. Body, gender, sexuality and subjectivity among male cross-dressers Anna Paula Vencato
21. From official transexuality to transexualities Berenice Bento
VI. CONNECTIONS
| FAMILY AND SEXUALITY
29. Gender performativities, kinship performativities: notes on travestis and their families in Florianópolis Fernanda Cardozo
30. Family, sexuality and female aging Andréa Moraes Alves
| RACE, COLOR AND SEXUALITY
31. From social inequalities to cultural differences: gender, “race” and ethnicity in sexual and reproductive health in Colombia Mara Viveros Vigoya and Franklin Gil
32. Homosexuality, skin color and religiosity: flirting among the “povo de santo” in Rio de Janeiro Laura Moutinho
| SEXUALITY AND RELIGION
33. Homosexuality and Christianity Regina Soares Jurkewicz
34. Threatening sexualities: religion and homophobia(s) in evangelical discourses Marcelo Natividade and Leandro de Oliveira
| SEXUALITY AND MEDICINE
35. Gender differences and the medicalization of sexuality in the diagnosis of sexual dysfunctions Fabíola Rohden
36. Histories, hysterias and hysterectomies: Medical discourses and imaginaries on female reproduction Patricia Tovar
37. From Deviation to Disorder: the medicalization of sexuality in contemporary psychiatric classifications of disease Jane Araujo Russo
38. Gerontology as a new science of sexuality and new configurations of the sexual life course Mauro Brigeiro
39. BDSM from A to Z: consent as a tool against pathologization in BDSM internet “handbooks” Bruno Dallacort Zilli
40. Body fantasies Mariza Corrêa