Violence and Desire in Brazilian Lesbian Relationships

Andrea Stevenson Allen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

243 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed. 2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-49851-9 (ISBN)

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In Violence and Desire in Brazilian Lesbian Relationships, Allen examines the lives of Brazilian women in same-sex relationships. This examination contributes to interdisciplinary discussions of female same-sex sexuality, violence, race, and citizenship. Using fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork, primarily with Afro-Brazilian women in the city of Salvador da Bahia, Allen argues that Brazilian lesbian women reject Brazilian cultural norms that encourage male domination and female submission through their engagement in romantic relationships with each other. At the same time Allen claims lesbian women also reproduce Brazilian cultural ideals that associate passion, intensity, and power with physical dominance through their engagement in infidelity and intimate partner violence. The book demonstrates that lesbian women are nonetheless marginalized as Brazilian citizens through widespread social and political invisibility despite these apparent displays of masculinized power.

Andrea Stevenson Allen is Lecturer in the Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

1. Historical Contexts 2. City of Invisible Women 3. Phantasmal Sexualities and Erotic Embodiment 4. Violence, Passion, and Power - A Love Story 5. Intimate Partner Violence, Government Intervention, and Civil Society 6. At the Gates of Nineveh

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.9.2015
Zusatzinfo	XII, 243 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-137-49851-X / 113749851X
ISBN-13	978-1-137-49851-9 / 9781137498519
Zustand	Neuware