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The AIDS Pandemic in Latin AmericaShawn C. SmallmanTaschenbuch Of the more than 40 million people around the world currently living with H I V/ A I D S, two million live in Latin America and the Caribbean. In an engaging chronicle illuminated by his travels in the region, Shawn Smallman shows how the varying histories and cultures of the nations of Latin America have influenced the course of the pandemic. He demonstrates that a disease spread in an intimate manner is profoundly shaped by impersonal forces. In Latin America, Smallman explains, the A I D S pandemic has fractured into a series of subepidemics, driven by different factors in each country. Examining cultural issues and public policies at the country, regional, and global levels, he discusses why H I V has had such a heavy impact on Honduras, for instance, while leaving the neighboring state of Nicaragua relatively untouched, and why Latin America as a whole has kept infection rates lower than other global regions, such as Africa and Asia. Smallman draws on the most recent scientific research as well as his own interviews with A I D S educators, gay leaders, drug traffickers, crack addicts, transvestites, and doctors in Cuba, Brazil, and Mexico. Highlighting the realities of gender, race, sexuality, poverty, politics, and international relations throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, Smallman brings a fresh perspective to understanding the cultures of the region as well as the global A I D S crisis. |
FrockodileJeanne WillisTaschenbuch |
Sadhus: Holy Men of IndiaDolf HartsuikerTaschenbuch |
My Husband Betty: Love, Sex, and Life with a CrossdresserHelen BoydTaschenbuchMy Husband Betty The author is a happily married woman whose husband enjoys sharing her wardrobe-and she's written this book on trans-gendered men to focus on their relationships. Full description |
The Drag King BookJudith Jack HalberstamTaschenbuchFor a decade and more, the photographs of Del La Grace Volcano (previously Della Grace) have set the agenda for intense discussions about gender and identity within the queer world and beyond. Volcano's camera has most recently come to rest on the drag king phenomenon, primarily its incarnations in San Francisco, London, New York, Berlin and Paris. A drag king, according to Volcano, is "anyone (regardless of gender) who consciously makes a performance out of masculinity", and his kings-ranging from butch dykes to transsexuals-ooze the kind of camp masculinity usually reserved for pimps, Las Vegas balladeers, gay porn icons and the more sartorially sussed end of gangland. Here Volcano teams up with academic Halberstam, interviewing drag kings and essaying some provocative observations. But while both authors and subjects insist on the fun, fun, fun of it all, there's often a seriousness in these incarnations that sits uncomfortably with Volcano's notion of "fag camp". The academic business of dissecting drag king and other trans-cultures has started with excellent work by Kate Bornstein, Halberstam and Jay Prosser, but here moves an important step further. While Halberstam's complex questions seem to perplex some of the king interviewees, < I> The Drag King Book stands as a shining example of what < I>can be achieved in the edgy confrontation between academy, activism and scene. But Volcano's photographs remain the < I>raison d'être of this book-always striking, witty and, whatever you think your sexuality might be this week, ridiculously horny. -< I> Alan Stewart |
Acting UpLibby PurvesGebundene Ausgabe |
Drag Kings: Mit Bartkleber gegen das PatriarchatTaschenbuch |
Mann oder Frau, wenn die Grenzen fließend werdenKarin HertzerB, Broschiert |
Life's a Drag! Paper Dolls (Dover Celebrity Paper Dolls)Tom TierneyTaschenbuch |
The Transgender Studies ReaderTaschenbuchThe Transgender Studies Reader Bringing together the voices and experience of transgender individuals, doctors, psychologists, and academically-based theorists, this title documents the evolution of transgender studies in the English-speaking world. It is designed as a foundational text for the transgender community, transgender studies, and related queer theory. Full description |
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