Travestis, transformistas, drag-queens, transexuais : personagens e mascaras no cotidiano de Belo Horizonte e Lisboa

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2001

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The aim of this dissertation is to analyze and discuss the differences and similarities among travesties, transformers, transsexuals and drag queens, the so-called transgender. Starting from an action called "montagem" (manufacturing, building), it is possible to study the production and reproduction of performers female. Performers in the sense of being transitory (Butler). In their process of "montagem", transgender rebuilds gender, revealing that this category does not have a binary and essentialist structure. Rather, it relates to the multiplicity, as well as it is connected to other social relations. The "montagem" also allows that the agent transforms its body and name, revealing the temporary feature to the individual. Besides, it shows that his action is embodied, since related to the body. This work is, then, an ethnography of these agents, taking into account the relational and situational perspective of gender. This ethnography was carried out by a research among travesties, transformers, transsexuals, and drag queens in Belo Horizonte (Brazil) and Lisbon (Portugal). It is an interpretation of the representations that these agents have "to be transgender" in these two cities.

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identidade sexual papel sexual transexuais travestismo

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