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product_id: 1629183
title: "Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) Paperback – November 15, 1998"
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# Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) Paperback – November 15, 1998

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- **What is this?** Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) Paperback – November 15, 1998 by don kulick
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Educational
*by D***I on March 7, 2013*

Unbiased, factual, written from a journalistic perspective. Shocking to say the least. Brazil is a vacation hotspot, and a lot of men travel to Brazil for sex. It's always good to know something about where you're going and what possible things you may see/encounter while you're there. Some of these transgendered men look 100% like women, and you can't tell the difference. Before you pack your bags and head off to Brazil with a suitcase full of condoms & viagra, it probably wouldn't hurt to survey the landscape and case the bank before you raid the vault. FYI: The level of dedication and commitment these individuals give to transforming themselves into objects of attraction for men is unreal. Yet, they DON'T consider themselves, call or see themselves as women. They straight up see themselves as gay men, who simply fashion and adorn themselves as objects of attraction for other men. Yet they do everything like women. Interesting. This book opened my eyes - and where I may have once judged transgendered people, I now withhold such judgments. If you're comfortable judging transgendered people, don't read this book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A insiders view...
*by M***O on July 19, 2009*

Travesti is not a book for those looking for a cheap trill. Nor is it a book for the faint hearted. It is a study about a fringe element and that is rarely pretty. Violence, sex, robbery, death, drugs and unhappy relationships fill this book from front to back. The only reason I took away a point was the feeling that the author did get a tad too close to the subjects he was studying. I think he was trying too hard. Yet his results, the information and view points he was able to record, was amazing and really forced me to look at life and gender in a whole new fashion.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Read this even if it's not for class!
*by E***Y on June 19, 2017*

I originally read this book for my Anthropology of Sex class in undergrad. While I do think that many people seem to be reading it for class, I would recommend this book to anyone interested in anthropology and/or trans culture, even if not of Brazil in particular. It's a short read and Kulick's writing style is easy to follow.It's a great ethnography that does a wonderful job giving a voice to "travestis" (a word used to describe the transgendered prostitutes in Brazil and many other parts of South America) and really gave good insight to the trans culture and LGBT rights and rights of sex workers in Brazil.Do keep in mind that this book was published in 1998, and that Kulick's academic background is primarily Linguistic Anthropology, though he has become highly influential in studies surrounding the queer community.

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