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Tupperware Sexuality

The contexts of sexuality, consumption and class are related to the emergence of the female consumer as an object of interest for advertisers. Read Sanjay Srivastava’s paper “Tupperware Sexuality: Consumption, ‘Morality’ and the Search for a Controllable Modernity”.

Interviews

Causing a commotion

Read Don Kulick’s paper on travestis and the politics of scandal in Brazilian society, presented at CLAM in May 2008. His book Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes has recently been launched in Portuguese.

In progress

Pesquisa Heterossexualidades: contracepção e aborto

Este estudo, coordenado por Maria Luiza Heilborn, está sendo desenvolvido em três cidades: Buenos Aires (Argentina), Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) e Bogotá (Colômbia). Nos três países a pesquisa começou em janeiro de 2007, estando prevista a apresentação de seus resultados finais para junho de 2008. O objetivo geral desta pesquisa é investigar as articulações entre o exercício da heterossexualidade e as questões relacionadas à contracepção e ao aborto.

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Dynamics of sexual politics

E-book SexPolitics: Reports from the Front Lines examines some dynamics of sexual politics in our time. The research was performed in eight countries – Brazil, Egypt, India, Peru, Poland, South Africa, Turkey, and Vietnam – and in relation to the United Nations and the World Bank.

Interviews

A matter of Principles

Dutch politician and human rights activist Boris Dittrich, Advocacy Director of the LGBT rights program of the Human Rights Watch, is responsible for promoting the Yogyakarta Principles around the world.