Beyond Carnival - Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Pleasures in the Parks of Rio de Janeiro during the Brazilian Belle Epoque, 1898-19142. Sex and Nightlife, 1920-19453. Control and Cure: The Medicolegal Responses4. New Words, New Spaces, New Identities, 1945-19685. The Homosexual Appropriation of Rio's Carnival6. "Down with Repression: More Love and More Desire," 1969-19807. ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Zusammenfassung

This cultural history of male homosexuality in Brazil shatters the exotic myths and replaces them with a complex picture of the social obstacles that confront Brazilian homosexuals. The study focuses on male homosexual subcultures in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: James N. Green, James Naylor Green, Green James N.
• Verlag: University Presses
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.12.2001
• EAN: 9780226306391
• ISBN: 978-0-226-30639-1
• Seiten: 416
• Abmessung: 15 mm x 24 mm x 2 mm
• Gewicht: 652 g
• Serien: Worlds of Desire: The Chicago; Worlds of Desire: The Chicago; Worlds of Desire S.; Worlds of desire; Worlds of Desire (CHUP); Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; Brazil, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Gay Studies (Gay Men), SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics