Sometimes it also rains up: on transvestites, their loves and disaffections
Starting from stories of transvestites, a thoughtful and critical exposition is woven on how these individuals locate themselves in a heteronormative gender order while, on the other hand, they legitimate and problematize these norms in their ways of relating with themselves and others. This paper p...
- Autores:
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López Murcia, Luz Mary
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2010
- Institución:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Repositorio:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/32294
- Acceso en línea:
- https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/32294
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/22374/
- Palabra clave:
- Social Work
Gender Studies
erotic-emotional relationships
gender identities
heteronormative discourse
love
prostitution
transvestism
amor
discurso heteronormativo
identidades de género
poder
prostitución
relaciones erótico-afectivas
travestismos
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
| Summary: | Starting from stories of transvestites, a thoughtful and critical exposition is woven on how these individuals locate themselves in a heteronormative gender order while, on the other hand, they legitimate and problematize these norms in their ways of relating with themselves and others. This paper presents some of the elements that permeate the reality of transvestite prostitution, namely how they construct their gender identities, their notions of femininity and masculinity, their body, their views on love, and the roles they assume and experience in their erotic-emotional relationships |
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