ISBN:
9781137498519
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 243 Seiten
,
23 cm
DDC:
306.76/630981
Keywords:
Lesbians Social conditions
;
Lesbian partner abuse
;
Women Violence against
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Brasilien
;
Salvador
;
Lesbische Orientierung
;
Gewalt
Description / Table of Contents:
Prologue : "I took her blood" -- Introduction : "We are phantasms" : lesbian and entendida women in Brazil -- Historical contexts -- City of invisible women -- Phantasmal sexualities and erotic embodiment -- Violence, passion, and power-- -- a love story -- Intimate partner violence, government intervention and civil society -- Conclusion : At the gates of Nineveh.
Note:
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Harvard University, 2011, under the title: We are phantasms : female same-sex desires, violence, and ideology in Salvador, Brazil
,
Includes bibliographical references (pages187-220) and index
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