International and Glamorous: about the Career of “Professional Transvestites”

The objective of this article is to analyze the agency strategies and the corporal techniques of the “professional transvestites” from their international circuits and careers. It was tried to analyze how the experience of these people’s movement in Europe constituted an important event to consolida...

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Main Author: Thiago Barcelos Soliva
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2019-09-01
Series:Revista Estudos Feministas
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/53423
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description The objective of this article is to analyze the agency strategies and the corporal techniques of the “professional transvestites” from their international circuits and careers. It was tried to analyze how the experience of these people’s movement in Europe constituted an important event to consolidate their careers and construction of themselves. It was from these circulations that these people were able to make contact with the world of the corporal modifications and also to construct strategies of resistance that, from the transit in the conventions of gender and class, made possible the existence of their forms of life. The data for the writing of this article were obtained through documentary, photographic sources and reports of life trajectories of the “professional transvestites” who experienced these processes. The trajectories of Rogéria, Eloína of the Leopards, Marquesa and Divina Valéria were focused in this study.
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spelling doaj.art-260d33279377446096dce09e7f3b332f2022-12-22T03:58:39ZspaUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaRevista Estudos Feministas0104-026X1806-95842019-09-0127210.1590/1806-9584-2019v27n25342332268International and Glamorous: about the Career of “Professional Transvestites”Thiago Barcelos Soliva0Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da BahiaThe objective of this article is to analyze the agency strategies and the corporal techniques of the “professional transvestites” from their international circuits and careers. It was tried to analyze how the experience of these people’s movement in Europe constituted an important event to consolidate their careers and construction of themselves. It was from these circulations that these people were able to make contact with the world of the corporal modifications and also to construct strategies of resistance that, from the transit in the conventions of gender and class, made possible the existence of their forms of life. The data for the writing of this article were obtained through documentary, photographic sources and reports of life trajectories of the “professional transvestites” who experienced these processes. The trajectories of Rogéria, Eloína of the Leopards, Marquesa and Divina Valéria were focused in this study.https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/53423travestiscosmopolitismoagênciaresistênciacorpo
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International and Glamorous: about the Career of “Professional Transvestites”
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travestis
cosmopolitismo
agência
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title International and Glamorous: about the Career of “Professional Transvestites”
title_full International and Glamorous: about the Career of “Professional Transvestites”
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title_full_unstemmed International and Glamorous: about the Career of “Professional Transvestites”
title_short International and Glamorous: about the Career of “Professional Transvestites”
title_sort international and glamorous about the career of professional transvestites
topic travestis
cosmopolitismo
agência
resistência
corpo
url https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/53423
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