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PublisherPalgrave Macmillan

ISBN-10113749851X

ISBN-139781137498519

eBay Product ID (ePID)5038728930

Product Key Features

Number of PagesXii, 243 Pages

Publication NameViolence and Desire in Brazilian Lesbian Relationships

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2015

SubjectSociology / General, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Criminology, Lgbt Studies / Lesbian Studies

TypeTextbook

AuthorAndrea Stevenson Allen

Subject AreaSocial Science

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight149.5 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2015-010666

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Delving into the complex lives of lesbians from all social classes living in Salvador, Bahia, a city rich with Afro-Brazilian traditions, Allen tackles the controversial topic of intimate partner violence. Her sophisticated and meticulous research reveals that this violence is often triggered by feelings of jealousy and acts of infidelity that are closely intertwined with notions of race, gender, sexuality, heteronomativity, and homophobia, all of which significantly shape the everyday lives of the women she studies." - James N. Green, Carlos Manuel Cspedes Professor of Latin American History, Brown University, USA "This book courageously takes on a subject that we would rather ignore, since it does not fit comfortably into dominant notions of gendered and sexualized femininity. Violence and Desire in Brazilian Lesbian Relationships foregrounds interpersonal violence between lesbians or intendidas in Salvador de Bahia, and the local 'moral world' that they inhabit. Allen deftly paints a portrait of these phantasmal citizens, lodged in a culture of invisibility, both embodying and breaking through cultural ideologies." - Gloria Wekker, Professor Emeritus of Gender and Ethnicity, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, and author of The Politics of Passion (2006)., "Delving into the complex lives of lesbians from all social classes living in Salvador, Bahia, a city rich with Afro-Brazilian traditions, Allen tackles the controversial topic of intimate partner violence. Her sophisticated and meticulous research reveals that this violence is often triggered by feelings of jealousy and acts of infidelity that are closely intertwined with notions of race, gender, sexuality, heteronomativity, and homophobia, all of which significantly shape the everyday lives of the women she studies." - James N. Green, Carlos Manuel Céspedes Professor of Latin American History, Brown University, USA "This book courageously takes on a subject that we would rather ignore, since it does not fit comfortably into dominant notions of gendered and sexualized femininity. Violence and Desire in Brazilian Lesbian Relationships foregrounds interpersonal violence between lesbians or intendidas in Salvador de Bahia, and the local 'moral world' that they inhabit. Allen deftly paints a portrait of these phantasmal citizens, lodged in a culture of invisibility, both embodying and breaking through cultural ideologies." - Gloria Wekker, Professor Emeritus of Gender and Ethnicity, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, and author of The Politics of Passion (2006)., "Delving into the complex lives of lesbians from all social classes living in Salvador, Bahia, a city rich with Afro-Brazilian traditions, Allen tackles the controversial topic of intimate partner violence. Her sophisticated and meticulous research reveals that this violence is often triggered by feelings of jealousy and acts of infidelity that are closely intertwined with notions of race, gender, sexuality, heteronomativity, and homophobia, all of which significantly shape the everyday lives of the women she studies." - James N. Green, Carlos Manuel Céspedes Professor of Latin American History, Brown University, USA

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal306.76/630981

SynopsisViolence and Desire in Brazilian Lesbian Relationships examines the lives of Afro-Brazilian lesbian women in the city of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil., 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.

LC Classification NumberHQ12-449