From Toads to Queens : Transvestism in a Latin American Setting
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1560239581
ISBN-13
9781560239581
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 18th, 1999
Print length
176 Pages
Weight
278 grams
Product Classification:
Sociology & anthropologySexual behaviour
Ksh 7,700.00
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The most comprehensive analysis of Latin transvestites, From Toads to Queens (a 2000 Lammy Nominee) rekindles the debate between nature and nurture. This crucial book adds important and new information against essentialist theories on the etiology of sexual orientation.
The information in From Toads to Queens: Transvestism in a Latin American Setting (a 2000 Lammy Nominee) is crucial to understanding Latin American culture and its relation to HIV prevention. You’ll find research findings that offer insights into and analysis of the sexual culture and risk factors that place transvestites in the sex trade and their customers at risk of contracting HIV. This information could prove valuable to developing preventions and interventions for similar populations in countries all over the world.In From Toads to Queens, transvestites in the sex trade and their customers share fascinating personal accounts from their daily lives, including details of their sexual encounters. Specifically you will gain insight into:
- sexual practices
- pay rates in the sex trade
- types of lovers and sexual partners
- locations of “work”
- conceptions of fashion and beauty among transvestites
- relations between transvestites, the police, and gay bashers
- clients who are heterosexual men
- drug consumption and unsafe sexFrom this book, you will gain a comprehensive analysis of Latin transvestites, how this population questions assumptions about sexual orientation and practice, and how they are affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Most importantly, From Toads to Queens documents boundry-crossing individuals’existence and subverts the simplistic division of people into traditional psychiatric categories, a crucial first step in devising ways to decrease the rates of HIV infection among specific populations.
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