Sociological work on transgender in Latin America: Some considerations

Lewis, Vek

doi:10.1080/13260219.2006.10426858

Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research

2006

DOI: 10.1080/13260219.2006.10426858

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Sociological work on transgender in Latin America: Some considerations

Vek Lewis

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“…Lewis (2006) demonstrates how sociological research methods regarding trans and travesti subjects often resort to stereotype and objectification. In this vein, he critiques Don Kulick's Travesti:Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (1998) and Annick Prieur's Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos (1998), while he sees César O. González Pérez's Travestidos al desnudo: Homosexualidad, identidades y luchas territoriales enColima (2003) and especially Josefina Fernández's Cuerpos desobedientes: Travestismo e identidad de género(2004) as examples of socially engaged and ethically responsible research that does not seek to objectify but rather engage with travesti populations as agents of knowledge themselves.…”

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I Monster: Embodying Trans andTravestiResistance in Latin America

Pierce

2020

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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Since 2010, legal gains for LGBTQI communities in Latin America have exposed the contradictions of inclusion under a rights-based approach to sexual citizenship. Expanding neoliberal economies and multicultural incorporation has yet to resolve persistent inequalities or ongoing gender-based violence, in particular for trans and travesti populations in the region. Rather than depend on the symbolic and material protections of the state, however, many trans and travesti activists, artists, and performers argue that since the state is interested in normalizing sexual relations and gendered identities through legal recognition, it cannot be a source of identification, safety, or freedom. Focusing on recent work by Susy Shock (Argentina) and Claudia Rodríguez (Chile), this article demonstrates that “monstering” (to monster) has become a crucial form of epistemological resistance to neoliberal politics of inclusion and recognition in Latin America and of opening up new possibilities of imagining collective belonging.

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I Monster: Embodying Trans andTravestiResistance in Latin America

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2020

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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“… 5. On this matter, see also the astute comments by Vek Lewis (2006), who demonstrates the ways in which analysis in Spanish of travesti lives focuses on matters of prostitution, and differs markedly from those in Anglo‐American queer and feminist theories. …”

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Undoing Theory: The “Transgender Question” and the Epistemic Violence of Anglo-American Feminist Theory

Namaste¹

2008

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For nearly twenty years, Anglo-American feminist theory has posed its own epistemological questions by looking at the lives and bodies of transsexuals and transvestites. This paper examines the impact of such scholarship on improving the everyday lives of the people central to such feminist argumentation. Drawing on indigenous scholarship and activisms, I conclude with a consideration of some central principles necessary to engage in feminist research and theory—to involve marginal people in the production of knowledge and to transform the knowledge-production process itself.

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Fountain-Stokes¹

2014

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly

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This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, ''Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,'' revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; others describe a term of art from another discipline or interdisciplinary area and show how it might relate to transgender studies. While far from providing a complete picture of the field, these keywords begin to elucidate a conceptual vocabulary for transgender studies. Some of the submissions offer a deep and resilient resistance to the entire project of mapping the field terminologically; some reveal yet-unrealized critical potentials for the field; some take existing terms from canonical thinkers and develop the significance for transgender studies; some offer overviews of well-known methodologies and demonstrate their applicability within transgender studies; some suggest how transgender issues play out in various fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines.

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Sociological work on transgender in Latin America: Some considerations

Cited by 6 publications

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I Monster: Embodying Trans andTravestiResistance in Latin America

I Monster: Embodying Trans andTravestiResistance in Latin America

Undoing Theory: The “Transgender Question” and the Epistemic Violence of Anglo-American Feminist Theory

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