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Redefining rape

Women are increasingly reporting sexual violations/exploitation within the home, workplace, friends’ circle or university that don’t quite match the strict requirements of ‘rape’ or the loose connotations of ‘outraging her modesty’, the two broad types of sexual violations that the law recognises.

Homossexualidades e transexualidades

Gays, lésbicas, transgenders: o caminho do arco-íris na cultura norte-americana [2010] (Gays, Lesbians, Transgenders: The Rainbow Path in North American Culture [2010])

A abordagem da sexualidade transgressora nos Estados Unidos é o tema que costura os ensaios deste livro. Partindo da análise de contos gays e lésbicos contemporâneos em que mapeia os temas mais constantes na literatura norte-americana, dá voz à resistência à opressão e contextualiza a luta contra a AIDS, Eliane Berutti discute questões dos queer studies. Além de focalizar pontos relevantes da teoria queer, também se preocupa em pensar em uma agenda desses estudos no Brasil: seria restrita a gays e lésbicas, incluiria outras minorias sexuais, teria como objetivo a formação de uma nova mentalidade social no século XXI?

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Queer Cultural Geographies

Sexuality Studies and LGBT Activism in Latin America. The Sixth International Latin American Cultural Studies Conference, to be held at the University of Pittsburgh the first three days of April 2010, will gather a number of people who have been key to activism and academic work on LGBT issues in Latin America.

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A woman’s right

“Restrictive abortion laws do not prevent abortion,” says a recent The Economist article, published in October’s edition of the magazine. According to the publication, around 40% of women live in countries where abortion is severely restricted by law, but such laws do not prevent abortion.

Interviews

Migration, bisexuality and HIV

World AIDS Day is observed every year on December 1st. Many studies have focused on homosexuality & Aids, however bisexuality has been scarcely addressed. Researcher Miguel Muñoz-Laboy (Columbia University) looks at the relation between bisexuality – especially among Latino men and HIV prevention, topics rarely linked in studies about Aids transmission.